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Science fiction is the genre of speculative fiction that imagines advanced and futuristic changes in technology, scientific knowledge, or biological systems. The elements common to science fiction hav
Cover of Imagination, an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine (1952)
Alien invasion featured in the novel The War of the Worlds (1897) by H. G. Wells, illustrated by Henrique Alvim Corrêa in 1906
The August 1923 issue of Science and Invention — the "Scientific Fiction number" — was the first issue of a Gernsback-published magazine to have significant fiction content.
Amazing stories, Sept. 1928. Hugo Gernsback coined the term "Scientiction" in 1916.
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Genre is any style or form of communication and art in any mode with socially agreed-upon elements, or conventions, developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literatur
Science fiction
…Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF or sf) is the genre of speculative fiction that imagines advanced and futuristic changes in technology, scientific knowledge, or biological systems. The elements common…
A genre painting, The Peasant Dance, c. 1568, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder