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Space exploration, as predicted in August 1958 by the science fiction magazine Imagination. Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) 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.
Several stories within the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights, 8th–10th centuries CE) also feature science fiction elements.One example is "The Adventures of Bulukiya", where the protagonist Bulukiya's quest for the herb of immortality leads him to explore the seas, journey to the Garden of Eden and to Jahannam (Islamic hell), and travel across the cosmos to different worlds much ...
Science fiction film is a film genre which emphasizes actual, extrapolative, or 2.0 speculative science and the empirical method, interacting in a social context with the lesser emphasized, but still present, transcendentalism of magic and religion, in an attempt to reconcile man with the unknown. — Vivian Carol Sobchack, p. 63.
Cyrano de Bergerac, one of the earliest SF writers, ca. 1654. John Birmingham, 2009. Ray Bradbury, 1975. Lois McMaster Bujold, 2009. Edgar Rice Burroughs, c. 1920. Octavia Butler, 2005. Richard Bachman (pseudonym of Stephen King) Paolo Bacigalupi (born 1972) Hilary Bailey (1936–2017)
Golden Age of Science Fiction. The Golden Age of Science Fiction, often identified in the United States as the years 1938–1946, [ 1 ] was a period in which a number of foundational works of science fiction literature appeared. In the history of science fiction, the Golden Age follows the " pulp era " of the 1920s and 1930s, and precedes New ...
List of fictional space stations. Starship (interstellar spacecraft)#Fictional examples. Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film. List of films considered the best. List of films considered the worst.
This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.
Sci Fiction was an online magazine which ran from 2000 to 2005. At one time, it was the leading online science fiction magazine . Published by Syfy and edited by Ellen Datlow , the work won multiple awards before it was discontinued.