What is Science Fiction? (literature)

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What is Science Fiction?


     Science Fiction, is the literature of change according to some writers around the world. Why? Science Fiction comes up with technology that does not exist. Technology that might be too abstract or too impossible to imagine. As time goes by, some science fiction technology will become nonfiction due to inventors creating strange things. Some inventors create things that were known as science fiction in the past. In a sense, science fiction changes the way the future unfolds. Some fiction concepts will change into reality over time.

     Science fiction is a concept that tries to differ from everyday life. Everyday life, refers to the things you see on the outside and reality T.V. You will often see things in science fiction books and movies that look strange. Some of the things do not appear to exist in modern times.

Science fiction is suppose to create a society that does not exist in the real world. Everything from the culture to the technology is suppose to be fictional. The rules and morality change in science fiction as well. What you think is supposed to happen does not always happen in a science fiction story. The good guy is sometimes the bad guy. Sometimes, there is no good and evil. Sometimes, the story is about the meaning of life. Sometimes, the science fiction story is about being lost in space. A science fiction story can be about anything and for any reason. Science fiction is always suppose to leave you on the fence of “which way.”

     For example, the 1960’s science fiction “The Twilight Zone” is a series that leaves you in the middle of “which way.” The series is about humans crossing over a light path that puts them in the twilight zone. Once they cross the light, anything can happen and nothing will make sense. Each story requires you to make up a reason for why it happened. The series wants you to realize that you are alive, but you need to figure out how to relate it to everything else. Series like The Twilight Zone is what science fiction was created to be. A genre where anything goes to find something that is impossible.





Reference:



Treitel, Richard. (2006). Definitions of What Science Fiction is And is Not. Retrieved from URL: http://www.treitel.org/Richard/sf/sf.html.