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Science Fiction books have always been a difficult genre to define. It encompasses all genres of fiction with a bend toward scientific discoveries. Though it can be (and has been, often) described as a genre that leads away from reality, it distracts from the ‘possible reality’ that is often presented in the works. Science fiction often lends a better understanding of reality through philosophical thought experiments while maintaining a very real human experience. The genre expresses the theoretical, but not the impossible (although, yes, more than often it later becomes impossible the more we discover—and I am speaking in general terms). Authors such as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert A. Heinlein, have written novels suggesting a future not so dissimilar to our own now—can science fiction written fifty years ago make a leap from genre fiction to literary fiction? Well, probably not, but it no less has roots in reality. Science fiction, for me, is best described as, reality meeting possibility at the crossroad.
Further reading:
link.springer.com/book/10.1057%2F978-1-137-56957-8
books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=s1iF6n6kT-UC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=the+importance+of+science+fiction&ots=CJ9pqMnoVP&sig=TbULZN0loqpb3ib5pYqVfcX-rr0&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=the%20importance%20of%20science%20fiction&f=false
researchgate.net/profile/Saad_Khan75/publication/338986401_Analyzing_the_Importance_of_Science_Fiction_Books_in_popularization_of_Science_An_Analytical_Overview/links/5e36de4a299bf1cdb9083065/Analyzing-the-Importance-of-Science-Fiction-Books-in-popularization-of-Science-An-Analytical-Overview.pdf#page=105
Intro music by JenHeizer:
youtube.com/watch?v=tt-zy6763TM
#science fiction #fiction #booktube #study
Science Fiction books have always been a difficult genre to define. It encompasses all genres of fiction with a bend toward scientific discoveries. Though it can be (and has been, often) described as a genre that leads away from reality, it distracts from the ‘possible reality’ that is often presented in the works. Science fiction often lends a better understanding of reality through philosophical thought experiments while maintaining a very real human experience. The genre expresses the theoretical, but not the impossible (although, yes, more than often it later becomes impossible the more we discover—and I am speaking in general terms). Authors such as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert A. Heinlein, have written novels suggesting a future not so dissimilar to our own now—can science fiction written fifty years ago make a leap from genre fiction to literary fiction? Well, probably not, but it no less has roots in reality. Science fiction, for me, is best described as, reality meeting possibility at the crossroad.
Further reading:
link.springer.com/book/10.1057%2F978-1-137-56957-8
books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=s1iF6n6kT-UC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=the+importance+of+science+fiction&ots=CJ9pqMnoVP&sig=TbULZN0loqpb3ib5pYqVfcX-rr0&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=the%20importance%20of%20science%20fiction&f=false
researchgate.net/profile/Saad_Khan75/publication/338986401_Analyzing_the_Importance_of_Science_Fiction_Books_in_popularization_of_Science_An_Analytical_Overview/links/5e36de4a299bf1cdb9083065/Analyzing-the-Importance-of-Science-Fiction-Books-in-popularization-of-Science-An-Analytical-Overview.pdf#page=105
Intro music by JenHeizer:
youtube.com/watch?v=tt-zy6763TM
