Explore: Lynching In Fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is the genre of speculative fiction that imagines advanced and futuristic scientific progress

This is a list of lynching victims in the United States. While the definition has changed over time, lynching is often defined as the summary execution

are frequently used in science fiction or related genres. Such elements may include depictions of realistic sexual interactions in a science fictional

source of the terms "lynching" and "Lynch law", even though the narrator rejects lynching. A man named William Lynch did indeed claim to have originated

are lynching Negroes" (Russian: "А у вас негров линчуют", romanized: A u vas negrov linchuyut; which also means "Yet, in your [country], [they] lynch Negroes")

Madeline in the science fiction comedy Electric Dreams with Lenny Von Dohlen (1984). She was cast as Princess Irulan in David Lynch's science fiction epic

African-American men who were murdered in a spectacle lynching by a group of thousands on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana. They were taken from jail

the "Widow of the Web" in the 1983 science fantasy film Krull, and starred as Lady Jessica in the 1984 David Lynch science fiction film Dune. She appeared

marble, and the sand, the endless sand..." Science-fiction historian John Clute argued that though Lynch's Dune "spared nothing to achieve its striking visual

as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. Trends in the planet's portrayal have largely been influenced by advances in planetary science