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science fiction
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genre of fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction that explores imaginative scenarios based on speculative scientific or technological ideas. It matters because it allows readers to consider how scientific advances might shape society and human experience in new and thought-provoking ways.
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It is catalogued under topics including Science fiction and Speculative fiction.
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- Science fiction
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- described at URL
- www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/36
- P8168
- Andrea Roth
- Stack Exchange tag
- worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/tags/science-fiction
- short name
- SF
- Stack Exchange site URL
- scifi.stackexchange.com
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Encyclopedic overview
Cover of Imagination, an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine (1952)
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