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The book collects fifty novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov. The book is organized as a "Glossary of Terms Frequently Used in Science Fiction Stories," terms "science fictionish rather than scientific" that are "not generally found in ordinary reference books [or] scientific ...
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.
Z.P.G. (short for "Zero Population Growth") is a 1972 Danish-American dystopian science fiction film directed by Michael Campus and starring Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin. It was inspired by the best-selling 1968 non-fiction book The Population Bomb , by Paul R. Ehrlich .
Science fiction by genre (22 C, 3 P) * Science fiction novels by subgenre (17 C) C. Christian science fiction (8 P) Science fiction comedy (18 C, 66 P) D. Dieselpunk ...
"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 ...
Golden Age of Science Fiction — a period of the 1940s during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published. New Wave science fiction — characterised by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content.
While science fiction is a unique genre of fiction unto itself, it is also sometimes used as an umbrella term for a variety of distinct non-realistic or speculative fiction genres, most particularly fantasy. Conversely, speculative fiction is sometimes used as the umbrella term for SF, fantasy, Magic realism, horror, etc.
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, a 1985 nonfiction book by David Pringle; A two-volume reference work by E. F. Bleiler and Richard Bleiler: Science-Fiction: The Early Years, 1990; Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, 1998; Science Fiction (American magazine) (1939–1941), later Future Science Fiction and Science Fiction Stories