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e. 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. It often explores human responses to changes in science and technology.
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 ...
Artificial intelligence is a recurrent theme in science fiction, whether utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, or dystopian, emphasising the dangers. The notion of machines with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler 's 1872 novel Erewhon. Since then, many science fiction stories have presented different effects of ...
Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. [1][2][3] The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell 's Islands of Space in the November issue of Astounding Science Fiction. [4][5][1] The complementary term soft science fiction ...
H. G. Wells 's The War of the Worlds, depicting Martians invading Earth, is one of the most influential works of science fiction. [1] Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. Trends in the planet's portrayal have largely been influenced by advances in planetary science.
Space opera. Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction [1] that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance. Set mainly or entirely in outer space, it features technological and social advancements (or lack thereof) in faster-than-light travel, futuristic weapons, and ...
Appleseed (1985–1989) by Masamune Shirow. Dominion (1986) by Masamune Shirow. Ghost in the Shell (1989–1991) by Masamune Shirow. Neuromancer (1989) by Tom de Haven and Bruce Jensen [33] Battle Angel Alita (1990–1995) by Yukito Kishiro [32] Martha Washington (1990–1991) by Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons.
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.