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  2. Outline of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Science Fantasy of Sci-Fan, is a hybrid genre within speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy.[1] In a conventional science fiction story, the world is presented as being scientifically logical, while a conventional fantasy story contains mostly supernatural and ...

  4. Science fiction - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    New Wave writers often saw themselves as part of the modernist tradition and sometimes mocked the traditions of pulp science fiction, which some of them regarded as stodgy, adolescent and poorly written [124] John Brunner, M. John Harrison, Norman Spinrad, Barrington J. Bayley, Thomas M. Disch: Minimalism

  6. List of science fiction themes - Wikipedia

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    Climate change—science fiction dealing with effects of anthropogenic climate change and global warming at the end of the Holocene era; Megacity; Pastoral science fictionscience 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 ...

  7. Category:Science fiction genres - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Slipstream fiction - Wikipedia

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    As an emerging genre, slipstream has been described as nonrealistic fiction with a postmodern sensibility, exploring an awareness of societal and technological change and psychological breakdown previously shown by science fiction authors during the time of postmodernism, as well as poets and experimental authors in modernism.

  9. Cyberpunk - Wikipedia

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    Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of "low-life and high tech". [1] It features futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyberware, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay. [2]