List of Science Fiction Themes - Travel

Travel

  • Colonization of other planets, moons, asteroids, etc.
    • Terraforming
  • Moving planets
  • Space exploration
    • Interstellar travel
      • Faster-than-light travel and communications
        • Hyperspace
        • Slipstream
        • Warp drives
        • Wormholes
        • Ansibles
    • Much slower than light
      • Generation ship
      • Sleeper ship
    • Very nearly light speed
      • Bussard ramjets
      • Ursula LeGuin's NAFAL ships, and the Twin paradox
    • Space stations
  • Teleportation
    • Portals
  • Time travel
    • Alternate histories: time travel can be used as a plot device to explore parallel universes. While alternate history has its own category (see above), it often occurs in time travel stories as well.
    • Anachronism
    • The Grandfather paradox: can someone go back in time and kill his parents before they beget the killer?
    • Time loop
  • Travel to the Earth's center


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Famous quotes containing the word travel:

    “So as to comprehend that the sky is blue everywhere one doesn’t need to travel around the world.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)