• Science fiction studies is the common name for the academic discipline that studies and researches the history, culture, and works of science fiction...
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  • Science Fiction Studies (SFS) is an academic journal founded in 1973 by R. D. Mullen. The journal is published three times per year at DePauw University...
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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...
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    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 1957...
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    Science fantasy is a hybrid genre within speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction...
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    and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often...
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  • 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...
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  • Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology/space opera...
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  • Chinese science fiction (traditional Chinese: 科學幻想, simplified Chinese: 科学幻想, pinyin: kēxué huànxiǎng, commonly abbreviated to 科幻 kēhuàn, literally scientific...
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  • Both utopias and dystopias are commonly found in science fiction and other types of speculative fiction. More than 400 utopian works in the English language...
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    Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkus Reviews. 1982. Retrieved 20 February 2021. Tandt, Christophe Den (2013). "Cyberpunk as Naturalist Science Fiction". Studies in American...
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  • The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE) is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979. It has won the Hugo, Locus...
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    First contact is a common theme in science fiction about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient species' first...
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    themes in speculative fiction include lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) themes in science fiction, fantasy, horror fiction and related genres...
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  • With the growth of science fiction studies as an academic discipline as well as a popular media genre, a number of libraries, museums, archives, and special...
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  • anthropologist Leon E. Stover says of science fiction's relationship to anthropology: "Anthropological science fiction enjoys the philosophical luxury of...
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    Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled Astounding Stories...
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  • Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1949–1984 is a nonfiction book by David Pringle, published by Xanadu in 1985 with...
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    The literary genre of science fiction is diverse, and its exact definition remains a contested question among both scholars and devotees. This lack of...
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    Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by...
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  • Science fiction is an important genre of modern Japanese literature that has strongly influenced aspects of contemporary Japanese pop culture, including...
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    centuries-old traditions of Slavic mythology and folklore. Russian science fiction emerged in the mid-19th century and rose to its golden age during the...
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  • Science in science fiction is the study or of how science is portrayed in works of science fiction, including novels, stories, and films. It covers a large...
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  • Materials science in science fiction is the study of how materials science is portrayed in works of science fiction. The accuracy of the materials science portrayed...
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  • 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...
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  • (2003). "Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville". Science Fiction Studies. 30 (91). Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. Retrieved...
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  • frequently used in science fiction or related genres. Such elements may include depictions of realistic sexual interactions in a science fictional setting...
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    Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or fandom of people interested in science fiction in contact with one another based upon that interest...
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  • Locating Science Fiction; and Anindita Banerjee. We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity". Comparative Literature Studies. 51...
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    genre includes, but is not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, magical realism, superhero fiction, alternate history, utopia and dystopia...
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