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Adventure After Being Accidentally Crygenically Frozen and/or Trapped in a Stasis Field Chamber[]
- Robert A. Heinlein's 1938 novel For Us, The Living
- Robert A. Heinlein's 1948 novel Beyond This Horizon
- Sleeper 1973 film
- Idiocracy 2006 film
Aging population burdens society[]
- Albert Brooks's film 2030
Astronaut trapped in an airlock[]
- 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 film
Catastrophe Caused by Scientific Blunder[]
- Gerald Hatch's novel The Day the Earth Froze
Extraterrestrial brain slugs deprive their human hosts of free will[]
- Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel The Puppet Masters.
Extraterrestrials contact humanity but only appear to be friendly[]
- "To Serve Man" episode of The Twilight Zone 1962
Humans degenerate through speciation[]
- H.G. Wells's novel Then Time Machine
- Poul Anderson's "Ghetto" (a short story in William F. Nolan's collection A Wilderness of Stars and "The Horn of Time the Hunter," a short story in his collection The Horn of Time)
- Tatyana Tolstaya's novel The Slynx
- Man After Man
Humans mutate horribly after nuclear war[]
- Tatyana Tolstaya's novel The Slynx
Master Computer for an Entire Society[]
- Lomax HG Wells' The Shape of Things to Come 1979 film
- The Last Question (final stages)
Monster disguised as an attractive woman[]
- Shambleau
- Mars Attacks 1996 film
Nuclear experiment gone horribly wrong[]
- Attack of the Crab Monsters 1957 film
Overpopulation forces humans to live in immense towers or beneath the ground[]
- Mack Reynolds' 1975 novel The Towers of Utopia
- J.T. McIntosh's 1958 novel The Million Cities
Planet that appears a Paradise Hides Some Horror[]
- "The Apple" episode of Star Trek: The Original Series
- story in collection Epoch
Post-Apocalyptic Barbarism[]
nuclear war[]
- A Boy and His Dog 1975 film
- The Book of Eli 2010 film
climate change[]
- Poul Anderson's novel The Winter of the World
- Tatyana Tolstaya's novel The Slynx
Robots or Remotely Controlled Bodies Cause Social Decadence[]
- Surrogates 2009 film
- Altered Carbon
Scientist unleashes powers he (rarely she) cannot control[]
- Mary Shelley's 1823 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
- Forbidden Planet 1956 film
- The Black Hole 2006 film
- Surrogates 2009 film
Tentacle monster molests human female[]
- Prometheus (2012)
Starships exiting hyperspace arrive horizontal to the ecliptic of the star system[]
- Every space RTS ever. I guess based on the principle "don't disorient the player".
External Links[]
- List of Science Fiction Clichés with a few examples
- Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt Comedian Patten Oswalt identifies three author/possible audience groups for dealing with life through science fiction.