Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "In discussion of science fiction, a Big Dumb Object (BDO) is any mysterious object (usually of extraterrestrial or unknown origin and immense power) in a story which generates an intense sense of wonder by its mere existence; to a certain extent, the term deliberately deflates this.The term was not in general use until Peter Nicholls included it in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as a joke in 2000, while its creation has been attributed to reviewer Roz Kaveney.Big Dumb Objects often exhibit extreme or unusual properties, or a total absence of expected properties:The monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey is an indecipherable influence on the protohumans to whom it first appears, and later in the film serves to show how little humans have evolved. "@en }
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- Big_Dumb_Object comment "In discussion of science fiction, a Big Dumb Object (BDO) is any mysterious object (usually of extraterrestrial or unknown origin and immense power) in a story which generates an intense sense of wonder by its mere existence; to a certain extent, the term deliberately deflates this.The term was not in general use until Peter Nicholls included it in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as a joke in 2000, while its creation has been attributed to reviewer Roz Kaveney.Big Dumb Objects often exhibit extreme or unusual properties, or a total absence of expected properties:The monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey is an indecipherable influence on the protohumans to whom it first appears, and later in the film serves to show how little humans have evolved. ".