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The obvious place to begin a Critical History of science fiction is with a definition of its topic, but this is no easy matter. Many critics have offered definitions of SF, and the resulting critical discourse is a divergent and contested field.
This introduction to a special issue of Thesis Eleven devoted to science fiction begins by exploring the way the genre has been handled by German and French critical theory and their Anglophone equivalents.
We can define science fiction as that branch of literature that deals with the human response to changes in the level of science and technology - it being understood that the changes involved would be rational ones in keeping with what was known about science, technology and people.
SCIENCE FICTION. THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF. IENCE FICTIONEdited byROB LATHAM13Oxford University Press is a. epartment of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, Auckland. Oxford New York Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong. Karachi Kuala Lumpur.
Why Read Science Fiction? Science fiction is often described, and even defined, as extrapolative. The science fiction writer is supposed to take a trend or phenomenon of the here-and-now, purify and intensify it for dramatic effect, and extend it into the future. "If this goes on, this is what will happen." A prediction is made.
Science Fiction Definition. Science fiction (SIGH-innss FICK-shun) is a type of literature that deals with inventive technologies, futurism, space travel and exploration, and other science-based components.
Science fiction’s fascinating artificial worlds can be described as extensively elaborated, that is, structural rather than occasional, disruptions that force us to think of those worlds simultaneously as fictions of the present and as plausible future realities.
