Speculative Fiction Tropes

Tropes:

• Absent Aliens
• Absolute Xenophobe
• Absurdly Sharp Blade
• Absurdly Sharp Claws
• Ab Urbe Condita
• Abusive Precursors
• Ace Custom
• Achilles' Power Cord
• Adam and Eve Plot
• The Adjectival Man
• Advanced Ancient Acropolis
• Advanced Ancient Humans
• Avoiding the Great War
• Aesoptinum
• The Ageless
• Agony Beam
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot
• Airborne Aircraft Carrier
• Akashic Records
• Alien Abduction
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated
• Alien Autopsy
• Alien Invasion
• Alien Kudzu
• Aliens Are Bastards
• Alien Sea
• Alien Sky
• Aliens Never Invented the Wheel
• Aliens of London
• Aliens Speaking English
• Aliens Steal Cable
• Aliens Steal Cattle
• All Hail the Great God Mickey!
• All Myths Are True
• All Nations Are Superpowers
• All Planets Are Earth-Like
• All Theories Are True
• Alternate History
• Alternate Landmark History
• Alternate Reality Episode
• Alternate Tooniverse
• Alternate Universe
• Alternative Calendar
• The Alternet
• Always on Duty
• Amazon Brigade
• Ambiguously Human
• Amusing Alien
• Anal Probing
• Anatomy Arsenal
• Ancient Astronauts
• Ancient Conspiracy
• Ancient Evil
• Ancient Tradition
• And Man Grew Proud
• Androids and Detectives
• Animate Inanimate Object
• Anti-Human Alliance
• Antimagical Faction
• Apocalypse How
• Apocalypse Wow
• Apocalyptic Log
• Apocalyptic Logistics
• Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder
• Arbitrary Maximum Range
• Arbitrary Skepticism
• Archaeological Arms Race
• Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age
• Arcology
• Area 51
• The Ark
• Arm Cannon
• Artificial Gravity
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Limbs
• Ascended Fanboy
• Asimov's Three Kinds of Science Fiction
• Asteroid Miners
• Asteroid Thicket
• Atlantis Is Boring
• Augmented Reality
• Aura Vision
• Automaton Horses
• Baby Planet
• Bad Future
• Bad Moon Rising
• Bad Present
• Balance Between Good and Evil
• Balkanize Me
• Ban on Magic
• The Battlestar
• BBC Quarry
• Because Destiny Says So
• Become a Real Boy
• Becoming the Genie
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
• Being Human Sucks
• Belly Buttonless
• Benevolent A.I.
• Benevolent Alien Invasion
• Benevolent Genie
• Benevolent Precursors
• The Bermuda Triangle
• Beware of Hitchhiking Ghosts
• Bewitched Amphibians
• Big Dumb Object
• Big Fat Future
• Binary Suns
• Bio-Augmentation
• Biodata
• Biological Weapons Solve Everything
• Bioluminescence Is Cool
• Bizarre Alien Biology
• Bizarre Alien Locomotion
• Bizarre Alien Psychology
• Bizarre Alien Reproduction
• Bizarre Alien Senses
• Bizarre Alien Sexes
• Bizarre Baby Boom
• Bizarre Human Biology
• Bizarre Seasons
• Black Market Produce
• Blade Below the Shoulder
• Blind Jump
• Blood Sport
• Blue and Orange Morality
• Bluffing the Advance Scout
• Boarding Party
• Boarding Pod
• Body Backup Drive
• Body Snatcher
• Body Surf
• Bold Explorer
• Boldly Coming
• Books That Bite
• Born-Again Immortality
• Born as an Adult
• Brain–Computer Interface
• Brain in a Jar
• Brain Transplant
• Brain Uploading
• Burial in Space
• California Doubling
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
• Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
• Cannot Cross Running Water
• Can Only Move the Eyes
• Can't Argue with Elves
• Can't Live Without You
• Capital Letters Are Magic
• Captain's Log
• Capture and Replicate
• Cargo Cult
• Cassette Futurism
• Casual Interplanetary Travel
• Casual Interstellar Travel
• Casts No Shadow
• Centrifugal Gravity
• Chest Burster
  • Spawn Broodling
• Chronoscope
• Citadel City
• City in a Bottle
• City Noir
• City on the Water
• City Planet
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe
• Clarke's Third Law
• Clockwork Creature
• Clone Army
• Clone by Conversion
• Clone Degeneration
• Clone Jesus
• Cloning Blues
• Cloning Body Parts
• Coca-Pepsi, Inc.
• Coconut Superpowers
• Cold Equation
• Cold Sleep, Cold Future
• Colony Drop
• Colony Ship
• Color-Coded Wizardry
• Comet of Doom
• Coming In Hot
• Complete Immortality
• Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit
• The Computer Is Your Friend
• Computerized Judicial System
• Conspiracy Placement
• Contagious A.I.
• Contagious Powers
• Contemporary Caveman
• Continuous Decompression
• Conveniently Close Planet
• Conveniently Coherent Thoughts
• Cool, but Inefficient
• Cool Chair
• Cool Gate
• Cool Key
• Cool Starship
• Corralled Cosmos
• Cosmic Chess Game
• Cosmic Keystone
• Cosy Catastrophe
• Counter-Earth
• Courier
• Crazy Cultural Comparison
• Creative Sterility
• Creature-Hunter Organization
• Creepy Monotone
• Cross-Cultural Handshake
• Crossover Cosmology
• Crush. Kill. Destroy!
• Cryonics Failure
• Cryo Prison
• Crystal Clear Picture
• Crystal Spires and Togas
• Cult Colony
• Culture Clash
• Curse Escape Clause
• Curse of Babel
• Cut the Juice
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
• Cyborg
• Cyborg Helmsman
• Dawn of an Era
• The Day of Reckoning
• Days of Future Past
• Dead Alternate Counterpart
• Dead to Begin With
• Death from Above
• Death of Personality
• Death Ray
• Death's Hourglass
• Death World
• Decade Dissonance
• Decontamination Chamber
• Deflector Shields
• Demihuman
• Demon Slaying
• Demythtification
• Depopulation Bomb
• Descriptively-Named Species
• Designer Babies
• Detachable Lower Half
• Detachment Combat
• Deus Est Machina
• Deus Sex Machina
• Devil but No God
• Dewey Defeats Truman
• Dhampyr
• Die or Fly
• Different World, Different Movies
• Digitized Hacker
• Dilating Door
• Dinky Drivers
• Disappears into Light
• Discount Lesbians
• Disintegrator Ray
• Disposable Superhero Maker
• Distress Call
• Divided States of America
• Divine Ranks
• Do Androids Dream?
• Do-Anything Robot
• Doing In the Scientist
• Doing In the Wizard
• Dominant Species Genes
• Do Not Adjust Your Set
• Down the Rabbit Hole
• Dowsing Device
• Dramatic Alien VTOL
• Dramatic Space Drifting
• Dreaming of Things to Come
• Drop Pod
• Drop Ship
• Dying Race
• Dyson Sphere
• Dystopian Edict
• Earth Is the Center of the Universe
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom
• Earth That Used to Be Better
• Earth That Was
• Easily Detachable Robot Parts
• Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion
• Eating Optional
• Elaborate Underground Base
• Eldritch Starship
• Electric Instant Gratification
• Electromagnetic Ghosts
• Elemental Baggage
• Elvis Has Left the Planet
• Elvis Lives
• Emergency Transformation
• Emergent Human
• Emotion Bomb
• Emotions vs. Stoicism
• Endless Daytime
• End of an Age
• The End of the World as We Know It
• "End of the World" Special
• Enemies with Death
• Energy Economy
• Energy Weapon
• Enforced Technology Levels
• Enhanced Archaic Weapon
• Escape Pod
• Eternal English
• Eternal Love
• Eternal Prohibition
• Eternal Recurrence
• E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi
• Ethnic Magician
• Excessive Steam Syndrome
• Every Device Is a Swiss-Army Knife
• Everyone Is a Super
• Everything Is an iPod in the Future
• Evil Costume Switch
• Evil-Detecting Baby
• Evil-Detecting Dog
• Evil Hand
• Evil Luddite
• Evil Me Scares Me
• Evilutionary Biologist
• Evil Weapon
• Evolutionary Levels
• Evolutionary Stasis
• Exotic Equipment
• Expanded States of America
• Expendable Alternate Universe
• Explosions in Space
• Explosive Decompression
• Expo Label
• Exposed Extraterrestrials
• Exposition Intuition
• Exposition of Immortality
• Expospeak
• Express Delivery
• Extra Parent Conception
• Extra-Strength Masquerade
• Exty Years from Now
• The Eyes Have It
• Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
• Face Monster Turn
• Faeries Don't Believe in Humans Either
• Failsafe Failure
• Fallen States of America
• The Fair Folk
• Familiar
• Famous, Famous, Fictional
• Fang Thpeak
• Fan of the Past
• Fantastic Aesop
• Fantastic Arousal
• Fantastic Caste System
• Fantastic Catholicism
• Fantastic Drug
• Fantastic Fighting Style
• Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables
• Fantastic Ghetto
• Fantastic Honorifics
• Fantastic Legal Weirdness
• Fantastic Light Source
• Fantastic Measurement System
• Fantastic Naming Convention
• Fantastic Nuke
• Fantastic Racism
• Fantastic Rank System
• Fantastic Recruitment Drive
• Fantastic Religious Weirdness
• Fantastic Ship Prefix
• Fantastic Slurs
• Fantastic Time Management
• Fantasy Axis of Evil
• Fantasy Conflict Counterpart
• Fantasy Counterpart Appliance
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture
• Fantasy Gun Control
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink
• Fantasy Pantheon
• Fantasy World Map
• Faster-Than-Light Travel
• Feed It with Fire
• Fetish-Fuel Future
• Feudal Future
• Fictional Field of Science
• Fictional Geneva Conventions
• Fictional United Nations
• Fiction as Cover-Up
• Fight Off the Kryptonite
• First Contact
• First Contact Math
• First Contact Team
• Fish People
• Five Races
• Flat-Earth Atheist
• Flawed Prototype
• Flesh Versus Steel
• Fling a Light into the Future
• Floating Continent
• Flying Books
• Flying Saucer
• The Fog of Ages
• Food Pills
• Forbidden Chekhov's Gun
• Force-Field Door
• Forgot He Was a Robot
• Forgotten Phlebotinum
• A Form You Are Comfortable With
• Free-Love Future
• Freak Lab Accident
• Frickin' Laser Beams
• From a Single Cell
• Future Badass
• Future Food Is Artificial
• Future Imperfect
• Future Music
• Future Slang
• Future Spandex
• Futuristic Pyramid
• Futuristic Superhighway
• Gaia's Lament
• Gaia's Vengeance
• Galactic Superpower
• The Game Come to Life
• Gate of Truth
• Gem Heart
• Gemini Destruction Law
• Gendercide
• Gender Rarity Value
• Generation Ships
• Generican Empire
• Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
• Genetic Memory
• Genie in a Bottle
• The Genie in the Machine
• The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson
• Genius Breeding Act
• Genocide Dilemma
• Geometric Magic
• Ghost in the Machine
• Giant Flyer
• Giant Woman
• Giving Radio to the Romans
• Glamour Failure
• A Glitch in the Matrix
• Global Warming
• God and Satan Are Both Jerks
• God Guise
• God Job
• Godly Sidestep
• God Test
• Going Critical
• Golem
• Gone Horribly Right
• Gone Horribly Wrong
• Government Drug Enforcement
• Grand Theft Me
• Great Big Library of Everything
• Grey Goo
• Grows on Trees
• Guilt-Free Extermination War
• Half-Human Hybrid
• Harmony Versus Discipline
• Hate Plague
• Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?
• Heart Light
• Heart Trauma
• Heavy Mithril
• Heavyworlder
• Heinz Hybrid
• Hellhound
• Hemisphere Bias
• Here There Be Dragons
• Here There Be Lions
• Hermetic Magic
• Heroic Lineage
• The Hidden Hour
• Higher-Tech Species
• High-Tech Hexagons
• High Times Future
• Historical Person Punchline
• Historical Rap Sheet
• Hive Caste System
• Hive Mind
• Holodeck Malfunction
• Hologram
• Hologram Projection Imperfection
• Holographic Terminal
• Homemade Inventions
• Home of Monsters
• Homeworld Evacuation
• Homosexual Reproduction
• Horde of Alien Locusts
• Horse of a Different Color
• Hostile Terraforming
• Hour of Power
• House Fey
• Hover Board
• Hover Skates
• How Unscientific!
• Huge Holographic Head
• Hugh Mann
• Human Aliens
• Humanity Is Advanced
• Humanity Is Superior
• Humanity Is Young
• Humanity's Wake
• Human Mom, Non-Human Dad
• Humanoid Aliens
• Human Popsicle
• Human Resources
• Humans Advance Swiftly
• Humans Are Diplomats
• Humans Are Flawed
• Humans Are Morons
• Humans Are Psychic in the Future
• Humans Are Special
• Humans Are Smelly
• Humans Are the Real Monsters
• Humans Are Ugly
• Humans Are Warriors
• Humans Are White
• Humans by Any Other Name
• Humans Need Aliens
• Human Subspecies
• Human Weapon
• Hunter of His Own Kind
• Hurl It into the Sun
• Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
• Hyperspace Lanes
• Hyperspeed Ambush
• Hyperspeed Escape
• I Can't See Myself
• I Come in Peace
• Ideal Illness Immunity
• Ignored Expert
• Illegal Religion
• I Love Nuclear Power
• Imaginary Enemy
• I'm Melting
• Immortality
• Immortality Bisexuality
• Immortality Hurts
• Immortality Immorality
• Immortality Inducer
• Immortal Life Is Cheap
• Immune to Bullets
• Imported Alien Phlebotinum
• Impossibly Mundane Explanation
• Improperly Placed Firearms
• Improvised Golems
• Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering
• Inexplicable Cultural Ties
• Infinite Supplies
• Innocent Aliens
• Insectoid Aliens
• Inside a Computer System
• Insignificant Little Blue Planet
• In Space Everyone Can See Your Face
• In Spite of a Nail
• Instant A.I., Just Add Water
• Instant Cooldown
• Instant People, Just Add Water
• Insufficiently Advanced Alien
• Intangibility
• Intelligent Gerbil
• Interdimensional Travel Device
• Interplanetary Voyage
• Interspecies Romance
• In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race
• In the Future, We Still Have Roombas
• In the Original Klingon
• Intrigued by Humanity
• Invaded States of America
• Invisible Aliens
• Invocation
• In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves
• I Say What I Say
• It Only Works Once
• It's a Small World After All
• Jackass Genie
• Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
• Julius Beethoven da Vinci
• Jungle Opera
• Jungle Princess
• Jury of the Damned
• Just One Second Out of Sync
• Kill All Humans
• Kill and Replace
• Killed to Uphold the Masquerade
• Killer Robot
• Kill It with Water
• Kill Sat
• Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
• Kirk's Rock
• Kiss Me, I'm Virtual
• Klingon Scientists Get No Respect
• Klingons Love Shakespeare
• Kryptonite Factor
• Kryptonite-Proof Suit
• Kryptonite Ring
• Landfill Beyond the Stars
• Language Drift
• Laser Blade
• Law of Alien Names
• Learnt English from Watching Television
• Legendary Weapon
• Lensman Arms Race
• Let's Mock the Monsters
• Ley Line
• Lie to the Beholder
• Life Drinker
• Life Energy
• Lightning Gun
• Lilliputians
• Lilliputian Warriors
• Liquid Assets
• Literal Genie
• Literal Surveillance Bug
• Literary Work of Magic
• Little Green Man in a Can
• Living Battery
• Living Forever Is Awesome
• Living Relic
• Living Ship
• Living Toys
• Loads and Loads of Races
• Lockdown
• Longevity Treatment
• Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!
• Losing Your Head
• Lost Colony
• Lovecraft Lite
• Low Culture, High Tech
• Lowest Cosmic Denominator
• Ludd Was Right
• Luke Nounverber
• Machine Monotone
• Machine Worship
• Made of Phlebotinum
• Mad Scientist Laboratory
• Magic A Is Magic A
• Magical Camera
• Magical Database
• Magical Library
• Magical Underpinnings of Reality
• Magic Carpet
• The Magic Comes Back
• Magic Feather
• Magic from Technology
• Magic Genetics
• The Magic Goes Away
• Magicians Are Wizards
• Magick
• Magic Pants
• Magic-Powered Pseudoscience
• Magically Regenerating Clothing
• Magic Versus Science
• The Magic Versus Technology War
• Magitek
• The Magocracy
• Manchurian Agent
• Man of Kryptonite
• Mars Needs Water
• Mars Needs Women
• Masquerade
• Matriarchy
• Matrix Raining Code
• May Contain Evil
• Meanwhile, in the Future
• Mechanical Evolution
• Mechanical Horse
• Mechanical Lifeforms
• Mechanical Monster
• Mechanistic Alien Culture
• Mega Corp.
• Mega-Maw Maneuver
• Menstrual Menace
• Mental Space Travel
• Mental World
• Mercurial Base
• Merging Machine
• Metal Poor Planet
• Metamorphosis Monster
• Metaphysical Fuel
• Methuselah Syndrome
• The Metric System Is Here to Stay
• Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
• Microts
• Middle Eastern Coalition
• Mid-Season Upgrade
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds
• Mile-Long Ship
• Military Mashup Machine
• Military Science-Fiction
• The Milky Way Is the Only Way
• Mind Hive
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read
• Mini-Mecha
• Minovsky Physics
• Miracle Food
• Miraculous Malfunction
• Mirror Chemistry
• Mistook the Dominant Lifeform
• Mithril
• Mix-and-Match Man
• Mobile-Suit Human
• Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness
• Moon-Landing Hoax
• Monster of the Week
• More Predators Than Prey
• More Than Infinite
• The Morlocks
• The Mothership
• Muggle-and-Magical Love Triangle
• Muggle Foster Parents
• Muggle Power
• Multicultural Alien Planet
• Multiethnic Name
• Multistage Teleport
• The Multiverse
• Mundane Utility
• Murderous Mannequin
• Must Be Invited
• Mutant Draft Board
• Mutants
• Mutual Masquerade
• Myself My Avatar
• My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That
• My Skull Runneth Over
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much
• Mysterious Antarctica
• Mystical Plague
• A Mythology Is True
• Named After Their Planet
• Name From Another Species
• Naming Your Colony World
• Nanomachines
• Nay-Theist
• The Needless
• The Necrocracy
• Negative Space Wedgie
• Neglectful Precursors
• Neo-Africa
• Neural Implanting
• Neuro-Vault
• Never Recycle Your Schemes
• Never the Selves Shall Meet
• New Eden
• New Neo City
• No Big Deal
• No Biochemical Barriers
• No Blood for Phlebotinum
• No Conservation of Energy
• No Control Group
• No Endor Holocaust
• No Heterosexual Sex Allowed
• No Immortal Inertia
• No New Fashions in the Future
• Non-human Lover Reveal
• Non-Mammal Mammaries
• No-Paper Future
• North Is Cold, South Is Hot
• No Seat Belts
• No Sex Allowed
• No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture
• No Such Thing as Space Jesus
• No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus
• Not Disabled In VR
• Note to Self
• No Transhumanism Allowed
• Not So Extinct
• Not the Nessie
• Not Using the Z Word
• Not Wearing Tights
• No Warping Zone
• No Waterproofing in the Future
• Now Do It Again Backwards
• Nuclear Nasty
• Nuke 'em
• Numbered Homeworld
• Obstructive Code of Conduct
• Of the People
• Older Is Better
• Old-School Dogfight
• Ominous Floating Spaceship
• Ominous Message from the Future
• Once-Green Mars
• One Character, Multiple Lives
• One-Federation Limit
• One Myth to Explain Them All
• One-Product Planet
• One World Order
• Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap
• Only Fatal to Adults
• Only the Author Can Save Them Now
• Only You Can Repopulate My Race
• Operator Incompatibility
• Opposite-Sex Clone
• Oppressive States of America
• Orbital Bombardment
• Order Reborn
• Organic Technology
• Organ Theft
• Orion Drive
• Our Clones Are Identical
• Our Doors Are Different
• Our Dwarves Are All the Same
• Our Giants Are Bigger
• Our Phlebotinum Child
• Our Showers Are Different
• Our Wormholes Are Different
• Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
• Out of Time, Out of Mind
• Pals with Jesus
• Panspermia
• Pantheon Sitcom
• Pardon My Klingon
• Passion Is Evil
• Patrick Stewart Speech
• Patronymic
• People Farms
• People Jars
• People Zoo
• Perfect Pacifist People
• Persecution Flip
• Personality Chip
• Person of Mass Destruction
• Phantasy Spelling
• Phantom Zone Picture
• Phlebotinum Battery
• Phlebotinum Dependence
• Phlebotinum-Handling Requirements
• Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity
• Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs
• Pick Your Human Half
• Pinocchio Syndrome
• Place of Protection
• Planar Shockwave
• Planetary Parasite
• Planet Eater
• Planet Looters
• Planet Spaceship
• Planet Terra
• Plant Hair
• Plasma Cannon
• Plausible Deniability
• Playing with Syringes
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up
• Pluto Is Expendable
• Population Control
• Portal Book
• Portal Cut
• Portal Network
• Portal Picture
• Portal Pool
• Portal Slam
• Portal to the Past
• Portent of Doom
• Possible War
• Post-Apocalyptic Dog
• Post-Modern Magik
• The Power of Love
• Powers That Be
• Precursor Killers
• Precursors
• Precursor Worship
• Pro-Human Transhuman
• Projected Man
• The Promised Land
• Prophecies Rhyme All the Time
• Protective Pressure
• Protocol Peril
• Proud Merchant Race
• Proud Scholar Race Guy
• Proud Warrior Race Guy
• Psychic Children
• Psychic Link
• Psychic Powers
• Psychic Radar
• Psychoactive Powers
• Psycho Prototype
• Psycho Serum
• Pulling Themselves Together
• Puny Earthlings
• Puppeteer Parasite
• Pyramid Power
• The Quest
• Quest for a Wish
• Racial Remnant
• Radiation-Immune Mutants
• Ragnarok-Proofing
• Raise Him Right This Time
• Ramming Always Works
• Ramscoop
• Random Transportation
• Ray Gun
• Raygun Gothic
• Reactionless Drive
• Reality Bleed
• Reality Warping Is Not a Toy
• Really 700 Years Old
• Recursive Precursors
• Recursive Reality
• Red Alert
• Reentry Scare
• Refugee from TV Land
• Reinforce Field
• Remote Yet Vulnerable
• Removed Achilles Heel
• The Reptilians
• Resurrective Immortality
• Ret Gone
• Retro Rocket
• Retro Upgrade
• Ribcage Ridge
• Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman
• Ridiculous Future Inflation
• Ridiculously Human Robots
• Robeast
• Robosexual
• Robo Speak
• Robot
• Robotic Reveal
• Robot Maid
• Robot Master
• Rocketless Reentry
• Rogue Drone
• Room 101
• Roswell That Ends Well
• Saharan Shipwreck
• Salvage Pirates
• San Dimas Time
• Sand Is Water
• Sand Worm
• Sapient Cetaceans
• Sapient Eat Sapient
• Sapient Ship
• Save the Day, Turn Away
• Scale of Scientific Sins
• Scannable Man
• Scary Dogmatic Aliens
• Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum
• Science Destroys Magic
• Science Fantasy
• Science Marches On
• Sci-Fi Counterpart
• Sci-Fi Ghetto
• Sci-Fi Kitchen Sink
• Sci-Fi Name Buzzwords
• Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
• Screw You, Elves!
• Script-Reading Doors
• Secret Government Warehouse
• Secret War
• Seeker White Blood Cells
• See-Thru Specs
• Self-Constructed Being
• Self-Defeating Prophecy
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
• Send in the Clones
• Sexbot
• Shapeshifter Guilt Trip
• Shapeshifter Identity Crisis
• Shapeshifting Squick
• A Shared Suffering
• Shattered World
• Sheep in Wolf's Clothing
• Shiny-Looking Spaceships
• Shooting Superman
• Showing Off the New Body
• Signs of the End Times
• Silicon-Based Life
• Silly Reason for War
• Silver Has Mystic Powers
• Single-Biome Planet
• Single Line of Descent
• Single Phlebotinum Limit
• Single Specimen Species
• The Singularity
• Skeleton Key
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet
• Skepticism Failure
• Skeptic No Longer
• Sky Surfing
• Sliding Scale Of Muggle Involvement
• Sliding Scale of Realistic Versus Fantastic
• Slow Transformation
• Small Universe After All
• Smart Gun
• Society Marches On
• Solar Flare Disaster
• Solar Sail
• Some Kind of Force Field
• Some Nutty Publicity Stunt
• Someone Has to Do It
• Something for Everyone
• Something Only They Would Say
• Sonic Stunner
• Soul Jar
• Space Amish
• Space Base
• Space Battle
• Space Brasília
• Space Cadet
  • Space Cadet Academy
• Space Clothes
• Space Cold War
• Space Cossacks
• Space Elevator
• Space Elves
• Space Fighter
• Space-Filling Empire
• Space Friction
• Space Is Air
• Space Is an Ocean
• Space Is Cold
• Space Is Magic
• Space Is Noisy
• Space Is Slow Motion
• Space Madness
• Space Marine
• Space Navy
• Space Pirates
• Space Plane
• Space Police
• Space Romans
• Space Sailing
• Spaceship Girl
• Spaceship Slingshot Stunt
• Space Station
• Spacesuits Are SCUBA Gear
• Space Trucker
• Space Whale
• SpaceX
• Special Effect Branding
• Speculative Documentary
• Spell Book
• Spice of Life
• Split at Birth
• Spock Speak
• Spontaneous Human Combustion
• Spreading Disaster Map Graphic
• Square/Cube Law
• Stalker with a Test Tube
• Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot
• Standard Human Spaceship
• Standardized Space Views
• Standard Sci-Fi Army
• Standard Sci-Fi Fleet
• Standard Sci-Fi History
• Standard Sci Fi Setting
• Standard Starship Scuffle
• Standard Time Units
• Starfish Aliens
• Starfish Language
• Starfish Robots
• Star Killing
• The Stars Are Going Out
• Star Scraper
• Starship Luxurious
• Stat-O-Vision
• Stay with the Aliens
• Stealth in Space
• Sterility Plague
• Stock Unsolved Mysteries
• Storyboarding the Apocalypse
• Story-Breaker Power
• Strange-Syntax Speaker
• Straw Vulcan
• Streaming Stars
• Street Samurai
• Stronger with Age
• Subspace Ansible (FTL Radio)
• Subspace or Hyperspace
• Sufficiently Advanced Alien
• Sufficiently Advanced Bamboo Technology
• Summon Everyman Hero
• Sunken City
• Super Breeding Program
• Super Cell Reception
• Superheroes in Space
• Superhero Speciation
• Super Multi-Purpose Room
• Supernatural Aid
• Supernatural Phone
• Superpowered Robot Meter Maids
• Super Prototype
• Super Soldier
• Supervillain Lair
• Superweapon Surprise
• Super Wheelchair
• Surrounded by Smart People
• Swiss Army Appendage
• The Symbiote
• Sympathetic Sentient Weapon
• Synthetic Plague
• Tainted Veins
• Takes One to Kill One
• Talking in Your Dreams
• Talking Lightbulb
• Technological Pacifist
• Technology Levels
• Technology Uplift
• Technopath
• Techno Wizard
• Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats
• Tele-Frag
• Teleportation Misfire
• Teleporters and Transporters
• Teleport Interdiction
• Telescoping Robot
• Television Portal
• The Television Talks Back
• Terminally Dependent Society
• Terminator Twosome
• Terra Deforming
• Terraform
• Terrain Sculpting
• Thank the Maker
• That's No Moon!
• That Sounds Familiar
• Theme Table
• There Are No Global Consequences
• The Theocracy
• Theotech
• They Called Me Mad!
• They Walk Among Us
• Thieves' Guild
• Think in Text
• Thrown Out the Airlock
• Thunderbolt Iron
• Tidally Locked Planet
• Time Abyss
• Time Dilation
• Time Stands Still
• Time Travel
• Tinman Typist
• Toasted Buns
• Token Heroic Orc
• Token Human
• Token Nonhuman
• Tools of Sapience
• To Serve Man
• Touch of the Monster
• Touch Telepathy
• Touched by Vorlons
• Tracking Chip
• Tractor Beam
• Transhuman
• Translation Convention
• Translator Collar
• Translator Microbes
• Transplanted Humans
• Trapped in Containment
• Trapped in the Past
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening
• Trigger Phrase
• Tripod Terror
• Tron Lines
• The Trope History of the Universe
• Trouble from the Past
• True Sight
• Truly Single Parent
• The Tunguska Event
• Twinmaker
• 2-D Space
• Two of Your Earth Minutes
• Ultimate Evil
• Undead Tax Exemption
• Underground City
• Uneven Hybrid
• Ungovernable Galaxy
• Unguided Lab Tour
• Uniqueness Decay
• Unit Confusion
• United Europe
• United Nations Is a Superpower
• United Space of America
• Universal Universe Time
• The Unmasqued World
• Unnaturally Blue Lighting
• Unnecessarily Large Interior
• Unnecessarily Large Vessel
• Unpredictable Results
• Unscientific Science
• Unseen Prototype
• Unspecified Apocalypse
• Unusual User Interface
• Unwinnable Training Simulation
• Unwitting Test Subject
• Upgrade Artifact
• Uplifted Animal
• Ursine Aliens
• Used Future
• Useless Superpowers
• The Usual Adversaries
• Uterine Replicator
• Vampire Detective Series
• Vampire Fiction
• Veganopia
• Vertebrate with Extra Limbs
• Vertical Kidnapping
• Very Loosely Based on a True Story
• Vichy Earth
• Vicious Cycle
• Video Phone
• A Villain Named Zrg
• Villains Blend in Better
• Virtual Celebrity
• Virtual Danger Denial
• Virtual Training Simulation
• Virus and Cure Names
• Virus Victim Symptoms
• Voice of the Resistance
• Volcanic Veins
• Wainscot Society
• Waking Up at the Morgue
• Walking Transplant
• The Wall Around the World
• Wave Motion Gun
• Wayback Trip
• Weaksauce Weakness
• Weaponized Exhaust
• Weaponized Teleportation
• Weapons That Suck
• We Are as Mayflies
• We Can Rebuild Him
• Weirdness Search and Rescue
• Weird Science
• Wetware Body
• Wetware CPU
• We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future
• We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future
• We Will Not Have Appendixes in the Future
• We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future
• We Will Not Use Stage Make-Up in the Future
• We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future
• We Will Wear Armor in the Future
• Whatevermancy
• What If the Baby Is Like Me?
• What Is This Thing You Call Love?
• What We Now Know to Be True
• Which Me?
• Who Wants to Live Forever?
• Who You Gonna Call?
• Why Am I Ticking?
• Why You Should Destroy the Planet Earth
• The Wild Hunt
• Win to Exit
• Wishplosion
• Witch Species
• A Wizard Did It
• Wizard Duel
• Wizards from Outer Space
• Wonder Twin Powers
• Words Do Not Make The Magic
• The World Is Not Ready
• World Shapes
• World Sundering
• World War III
• World War Whatever
• Worthless Yellow Rocks
• Wrong Time-Travel Savvy
• The Xenophile
• Year Inside, Hour Outside
• Year Outside, Hour Inside
• Ye Olde Nuclear Silo
• You No Take Candle
• Your Magic's No Good Here
• Your Mind Makes It Real
• Your Normal Is Our Taboo
• Your Universe or Mine?
• You Sexy Beast
• Zeerust
• Zeppelins from Another World
• Zeroes and Ones
• Zero-G Spot
• Zeroth Law Rebellion
• Zombie Stories