Alphabetical SFF

[chrispenycate]

A few more "D"s I've come up with:-
Dyson sphere, djinni, doppleganger., DAW, dark matter, drone, Dorsai, Cyrano de Bergerac, Disbelief, suspension of, the ultimate aim of speculative fiction.

Still, I'd apreciate knowing the rules! Should I be posting no more than one entry per category? (this would give more people a chance to join in, but some letters would go on for quite a while) How do we decidewhen a letter has ground to a halt, and no more suggestions are forthcoming? And what constitutes cheating? Obviously, an alphabetically indexed encyclopedia of speculative fiction, should one exist, but how about carrying a notebook at all times and writing down ideas, under their relevant letters, where and when they surfaced (which I cheerfully own up to doing; the notebook was already with me, it's merely gained some alphabetical divisions)? Or asking a friend, or googling something you already nearly know? Cyril, the perpetrator of this thread, hasn't been around recently to interrogate.

[Brown Rat]

"Rules" come under "R," chrispenycate.

[chrispenycate]

Originally Posted by Brown Rat

"Rules" come under "R," chrispenycate.

How true (somewhere between "rude" and "rune"): and how much like life, that you don't learn what you were playing for until it's almost over.
Heaves deep, extremely philosophical sigh.

[chrispenycate]

Yes, I know it's a double post; but I did wait for it to drop off the bottom before reviving it

"E"s:- Authors David Eddings, Steven Erikson, Rosemary Edgehill, Linda Evans, an illustrator of some note (if you're as old as I am) Emsh (Ed Emshwiller)

Characters Ender Wiggins, elves and Ents
Earth, eatee, Eater, entropy ectoplasm. EVA, ESP, empire, Eco (or green) erehwon, evil, empathy, ether, enigma, ENIAC, explosions (how we love things that go bang), extinction
Doesn't seem very many- I'm expecting to thump my forehead many times with "why didn't I think of that"s

[hermi-nomi]

Do you know, i already posted a great post and it was sarky and funny ~ and the flaming computer wouldn't post it.

So, being boring;

Erlemeyer Flask (The X Files)
Empire of Bones (Liz Williams)
Eragon
Esk (Discworlds first female wizard)

[BookStop]

Electronic Echoes
Endymion
Ethereal
Elena - more paranormal(Bitten)


Eees are hard

[j. d. worthington]

Just going to add one (time constraints) for now:

E. R. Eddison -- The Worm Ouroboros, Mistress of Mistresses, A Fish Dinner in Memison, The Mezentian Gate, Styrbiorn the Strong

[kyektulu]

Fantastical Beasts, E:

Eldarin -

A celestrial race.
They are knights and lords who roam the cosmos in search of good folk 2 aid.

Elemental.
Elementals are incarnations of the elements that compose existence.

Elf.

Humanoid gaurdians of the forrest.
Generally taller more slender and physically beautiful than humans.

Etheral Marauder

Etheral Marauders are aggressive predetors that can move quickly from the etheral plane to attack people and creatures on the material plane.

Ettercap

A revolting creature which resembles a cross between a gangly human and a gross, bloated spider.
Evil race

Egors

Well, like frankenstien really, Terry Pratchett made these into a whole new race.

Ettin

A hulking giant that has two heads, they are unpredictable hunters that stalk the night. Thier two heads make them exceptionally sharp eyed and alert.

[Nesacat]

Ents (Tolkien)
A race of giant, tree-like people whose purpose was to protect the forests of Middle-earth. By the end of the Third Age, the great forests had dwindled, and so had the Ents, but they were still to be found in Fangorn Forest.

Eagles (Tolkien)
The great birds who were the friends of Elves and Men in Middle-earth; the mightiest of the Eagles was Thorondor, who dwelt in the Encircling Mountains; he and his kin carried spirits akin to the Maiar.


Eric (Terry Pratchett):
Fourteen-year-old demonologist. Lives in Midden Lane, Psudopolis (next door to the tannery). Had a grandfather with a succubus fixation. Slim, dark-haired, acne attack ground zero. Not too bad at his work. According to some, terribly bright and self-centered. Has the normal for his age hormone storm.


Esoteric Order Of Dagon (Lovecraft):
Pagan religious cult located in Innsmouth, Massachusetts from the early 1840s to February, 1928. The religion was attributed with the sudden and abundant return of fine fishing to the area and was embraced by the local townsfolk as the result. The order became the greatest influence in town, replacing Free Masonsry all together and taking up headquarters in the old Masonic Hall on New Church Green. Priests of the order are rarely seen by human eyes, and then only as passing shadows that haunt the observer with their sinister qualities. Priests wear the Tiara of the Deep Ones as a badge of their station.

Eibon (Clark Ashton Smith):
Eibon was a sorcerer and priest of Zhothaqquah (Tsathoggua). He holds renown as the writer of the Book of Eibon, a tome that, among other things, chronicles Eibon's life, and includes his magical formulae and rites of Zhothaqquah. He lived in a five-story, five-sided tower made of black gneiss that stood beside the sea on Mhu Thulan. Eibon disappeared shortly after Yhoundeh's premier inquisitor, Morghi, came to his black tower with a writ for his arrest.

[Brown Rat]

ET (the abbreviation, not the movie)
Estraven (from Left Hand of Darkness)
Escape from New York (the movie)

[sonofstan]

Think we are ready for the F's. O.K lets see

Fantus- from Raymond.e.fiest books
Fangorn forest-LOTR
Ferengi- Star trek
Fortress- Really bad movie with the guy from highlander in it.
Foul ole ron- Discworld books
Fel, jag- Star wars NJO books
Faramir-LOTR

[Thadlerian]

Fench/Fennec/etc. - Notorious fixer in Miéville's Bas-Lag
fReemade - Revolutionary criminals in said universe
Faërun - Stock Fantasy world invented for roleplaying purposes
Fingolfin/Finarfin/Finwë/Fingon/Fëanor/etc. - Interchangeable Elves from Tolkien's Silmarillion
Farder Coram - Good guy in His Dark Materials
Frey - Noble House that tends to gather antagonism from GRRM readers
Freelancer - Rather sorry game by Digital Anvil, ended up being not half of what it had promised to be
Freedom of the individual - Popular theme among "Golden Age" SF writers
French Revisionists - Time-travellers messing up the past in Jasper Fforde's novels

[sonofstan]

Feathor Firenczy- nasty vanpire in Brian lumely books.

Fox Force Five- Non-existant tv show mentioned by Uma hurman in Pulp fiction.

Force Field- Device for stopping laser bolts and other nasties in most sci-fi.

Fantastic Four- Comic book heroes.

Fab Five Freddy- Yo MTV raps vj from the 90s

[chrispenycate]

Authors (since Feist and Fford have already been mentioned) Philip Jose Farmer, Esther Friesner, Eric Flint, Lesley Fish (for filk), Michael Flynn, , Robert L. (plus Martha Dodson & Julie ;it’s a family affair) Forward, Dave Freer, Leo Frankowski.
Story Elements Fire (as an element, not just how mundanes use it) fable,fictons, fiction, flatlander, film, fission, fusion, future, first contact, FTL (faster than light),Faerie, Faries. Fans (or fen)
Publications: Fantastic Tales

[BookStop]

C.S. Friedman
Alan Dean Foster
Feng - Cowboy Feng's...
Fong - Reboot
Fae - land of faeries
Frell- Ella of
Fair Folk