Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. The term was first used in print in...

Soft science fiction, or soft SF, is a category of science fiction with two different definitions, defined in contrast to hard science fiction. It can...

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts...

similarities to hard science fiction and Ritch Calvin has pointed out MSF's similarities to cyberpunk. Some commentators have identified science fiction films and...

Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. 'three body') is a story by Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin, the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past...

became exasperated by the limitations of "Hard Science Fiction". The label first came into wide use after many science fantasy stories were published in the...

and encounter exotic aliens. Indeed, one activity associated with hard science fiction is "world building," meticulously crafting bizarre planets that nonetheless...

and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often...

rational and knowable world. In this sense, the term is analogous to hard science fiction, from which it draws its name, in that both build their respective...

The literary genre of science fiction is diverse, and its exact definition remains a contested question among both scholars and devotees. This lack of...

Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for best translated novel...

Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology/space opera...

of topics, since science takes on many roles in science fiction. Hard science fiction is based on engineering or the "hard" sciences (for example, physics...

anthropologist Leon E. Stover says of science fiction's relationship to anthropology: "Anthropological science fiction enjoys the philosophical luxury of...

of Science Fiction, often identified in the United States as the years 1938–1946, was a period in which a number of foundational works of science fiction...

defining science fiction. This is a list of definitions that have been offered by authors, editors, critics and fans over the years since science fiction became...

Brazilian science fiction has been a part of Brazilian literature since the mid 19th century. The first works of Brazilian Science Fiction emerged in the...

Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir...

The Dark Forest (Chinese: 黑暗森林) is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the sequel to the Hugo Award-winning novel The...

(born December 19, 1975) is an American author of high fantasy and science fiction. He is best known for the Cosmere fictional universe, in which most...

Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and...

science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard-copy periodical format or on the Internet. Science fiction...

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery...

Christian science fiction is a subgenre of both Christian literature and science fiction, in which there are strong Christian themes, or which are written...

Hard to Be a God (Russian: Трудно быть богом, romanized: Trudno byt' bogom) is a 1964 science fiction novel by the Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky...

disbelief. Rubber science is a feature of most genres of science fiction, with the exception of hard science fiction. The term rubber science was coined by...

formal sciences and natural sciences are considered hard science, whereas the social sciences and other sciences are described as soft science. Precise...

Mickey7 is a 2022 science fiction novel by Edward Ashton. Its sequel, Antimatter Blues, was released in March 2023. A film adaptation directed by Bong...

The New Wave was a science fiction style of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by a great degree of experimentation with the form and content of stories...

This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of...