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Dystopian fiction offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. [ 1 ] [ full citation needed ] Some novels combine both genres, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take depending on its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures.
Inverted World (The Inverted World in some editions) is a 1974 science fiction novel by British writer Christopher Priest (1943–2024). The novel's basic premise was first used in the short story "The Inverted World" included in New Writings in SF 22 (1973), which had different characters and plot.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Escapist fiction does not have a formal literary definition and can variously be used as a synonym for genre fiction, commercial fiction, popular fiction, or formula fiction. Genres that can function as escapist fiction include: Bodice rippers/Romance novels; Fantasy fiction; Horror fiction; Pulp fiction; Science fiction, Utopian and dystopian ...
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
One review compared Incandescence to "a not particularly enthralling lecture on the process of scientific discovery, combined with the physics of a black hole". [4] Another reviewer described much of this criticism as "trite received opinion" and said the book had "hints of greatness and pleasing moments" but its structure was "a failed literary experiment" and ultimately rather dull.
Beyond science fiction books, the term hopepunk has been applied to television shows, movies, and fictional characters. The Den of Geek hopepunk explainer gives examples such as Snowpiercer , when Curtis blows up the train; Mad Max: Fury Road , when Max and Furiosa return to the Citadel; and The Expanse , when Naomi allows desperate refugees ...
The Neanderthal Parallax is a trilogy of novels written by Robert J. Sawyer and published by Tor.It depicts the effects of the opening of a connection between two versions of Earth in different parallel universes: the world familiar to the reader, and another where Neanderthals became the dominant intelligent hominid.