List of clichés found in science fiction literature
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction on pages 234 and 235 mentions several common clichés found in the genre.
- Children characters will often have psionic powers or failing that they will be a child prodigy. (This occurs in the genre from The Hampdenshire Wonder to the present.)
- People with telepathy, or other powers, exist but are victims of witch-hunts.
- Robots are either funny, terrifying, or sometimes a mixture of the two. When they are terrifying they often want to overthrow "their human masters."
- A mad scientist drives the plot.
- Aliens want to have sex with the human females considered attractive by human males.
- A kind of reversal occurs in Memoirs of a Spacewoman by Naomi Mitchison where human women are sexually interested in ordinary alien males. This may have become a cliché in its own right; see Kif Kroker.
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