Science Fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, parallel universes, aliens, and paranormal abilities. Exploring the consequences of scientific innovations is one purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas". Science Fiction has often been used by authors and film/television program makers as a device to explore more wide ranging philosophical subjects such as identity, desire, morality and social structure etc.
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... is still some controversy as to when science fiction began in Latin America, the earliest works date from the late 19th century ... Up to the 1960s, science fiction was the work of isolated writers who did not identify themselves with the genre, but rather used its elements to criticize society, promote their own ... This, in turn, led to the permanent emergence of science fiction in the 1960s and mid 1970s, notably in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Cuba ...
... It is frequently cited within science fiction circles as one of the worst science fiction novels ever written ... The influential The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes the series "whose farcical overemphases fail to disguise an overblown tale that would have been more at home in the dawn of pulp ... better than Mission Earth, his only other later published work of fiction) ...
... Both Biggle's science fiction and mystery stories have received international acclaim ... He was celebrated in science fiction circles as the author who introduced aesthetics into a literature known for its scientific and technological complications ... Among Biggle's enduring science fiction creations were the Interplanetary Relations Bureau and the Cultural Survey, both featured in novels and magazine stories ...
... on the same rational approach to fantasy that he required of his science fiction writers, and in the words of Clareson, this led to the destruction of "not only the prevalent narrative ... also suggests that Unknown influenced the science fiction that appeared in Astounding after Unknown folded ... Clareson further proposes that Galaxy Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction, two of the most important and successful science fiction and fantasy magazines, were direct descendants of Unknown ...
... Lerner (born 1949) is a US author of science fiction and techno-thrillers ... Grandfather Paradox, and shown at the 2006 Balticon Science Fiction convention where it won the Best Film Award ... It was also a semifinalist at the 2006 Science Fiction Short Film Festival ...
Famous quotes containing the words fiction and/or science:
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)