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Science fiction, as Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote, is not predictive but descriptive, and what contemporary science fiction authors are so often describing is a world that seems to be less and less ...
Defining “science fiction” (so that one can say, definitively, this book is a sci-fi book) is a little like defining “spiritual” or some other vague belief category that includes so many ...
Climate change—science fiction dealing with effects of anthropogenic climate change and global warming at the end of the Holocene era; Megacity; Pastoral science fiction—science fiction set in rural, bucolic, or agrarian worlds, either on Earth or on Earth-like planets, in which advanced technologies are downplayed. Seasteading and ocean ...
Classics of Science Fiction - lists and various breakdowns; Nebula Award Winners; The Core Reading List of Fantasy and Science Fiction - from NESFA; Science fiction, fantasy and horror books by award, lists all award-winning books for 14 genre awards; Best 50 sci-fi novels of all time (Esquire; March 21, 2022)
"A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...
THE LIST: Catch up on the year’s best new novels with Katie Rosseinsky and Jessie Thompson’s edit of 2024’s most memorable fiction Best fiction books of 2024: from Sally Rooney’s ...
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.
Snow Crash established Stephenson as a major science fiction writer of the 1990s. The book appeared on Time magazine's list of 100 all-time best English-language novels written since 1923. [ 14 ] Some critics have considered it a parody of cyberpunk [ 15 ] [ 16 ] and mentioned its satiric or absurdist humor.