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Social science fiction is a subgenre thereof, where social commentary (cultural or political) takes place in a sci-fi universe. Utopian and dystopian fiction is a classic, polarized genre of social science fiction, although most works of science fiction can be interpreted as having social commentary of some kind or other as an important feature ...
Pages in category "Social science fiction" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This is a list of social science fiction writers with their best-known works. Iain M. Banks - The Culture series; Malorie Blackman - The Noughts & Crosses series; Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower; Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451; Renee Gladman – The Ravicka series; Robert A. Heinlein; Aldous Huxley - Brave New World; James Howard ...
Utopian and dystopian fiction are subgenres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author's ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers. Dystopian fiction offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely ...
Science fiction can act as a vehicle to analyze and recognize a society's past, present, and potential future social relationships with the other. Science fiction offers a medium and representation of alterity and differences in social identity. [192] Brian Aldiss described science fiction as "cultural wallpaper". [193]
Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian [1] time travel [2] science fiction novel by the American journalist and writer Edward Bellamy first published in 1888. [3]The book was translated into several languages, and in short order "sold a million copies."
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ ˈ k r oʊ b ər l ə ˈ ɡ w ɪ n / KROH-bər lə GWIN; [1] née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author.She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series.
Social science fiction in Poland is a subgenre of science fiction that falls within the scope of social science fiction. It emerged in Polish science fiction literature in the second half of the 1970s and was present until the end of the 1980s [1] [2] (although some argue that the movement effectively died out by the mid-1980s). [3] Critics ...