 Magazine cover of Imagination December 1952 issue. Image by Art by Malcolm Smith. Scanned by Earl Kemp., via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
Al Fi Various ArtistsScience fiction Science fiction Literary genre "Scifi" redirects here. For other uses, see Science fiction (disambiguation) and Scifi (disambiguation). Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is the genre of speculative fiction that imagines advanced and futuristic scientific or technological progress. The elements common to science fiction have increased over time: from space exploration, extraterrestrial life, time travel, and robotics; to parallel universes, dystopian societies, and biological manipulations; and, most lately, to information technology, transhumanism, posthumanism, and environmental challenges. Science fiction often explores human responses to the consequences of these types of projected or imagined scientific advances. Cover of Imagination, an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine (1952) The precise definition of science fiction has long been… (Source: Wikipedia)
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