| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - For many sf writers, admittedly, use of a novum is less grandly ambitious: it can be just a Big Dumb Event or Big Dumb Object (a Starship as big as a planet, say, or a traversable Wormhole through space and time) that permits genre-specific kinds of exploration, adventure and displaced fantasies of omnipotence or at least supreme competence.
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