Ascension (science fiction)
For the 2014 science fiction miniseries, see Ascension (miniseries).
In science fiction, ascension is the fictional process of leaving the corporeal realm for a higher plane. This is often depicted as a transitional phase in the lifetime of an intelligent species, after which they then play no further part in the physical universe, as if they had disappeared.
Examples of ascension in science fiction include:
- the Ancients, in the Stargate fictional universe
- the Sublimed, in the works of Iain M. Banks
- the Arisians, in E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series
- mankind, in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End
See also
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