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A 3 page paper which defines and explains science fiction. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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much a class or genre unto itself. The following paper examines and discusses what science fiction is. What is Science Fiction? When we first look at the term
"science fiction" we must perhaps separate the two words in order to better understand what science fiction may mean. The word "science" refers to the real world, the world of
science, the world of technology both real and imagined. The fact that is it coupled with "fiction" indicates that it often comprised of scientific realities that have not yet come
to pass, or scientific things that are based on reality but put into a realm of fiction. One author notes that science fiction "reflects scientific thought; a fiction of things-to-come
based on things-on-hand" (G?k?e, 2005). Anyone even slightly familiar with science fiction knows that one of the most powerful science fiction writers was Isaac Asimov. Asimov was a man
who utilized facts in the scientific and technological world and then incorporated them into his science fiction. His works presented the reader with a look at technology that was in
the process of actually being developed, and science technology that was being examined and planned out in the real world. Asimov once stated that science fiction is "is the only
form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us, the possible consequences, and the possible solutions. That branch of literature which is concerned with the
impact of scientific advance upon human beings" (G?k?e, 2005). So, while there is clearly a great deal of honest scientific thought and technological realities that are often a part of
science fiction, there are also the elements of fiction that, as Asimov indicated, examine how mankind can live with technology and what the technology may well do to humans in
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