Linked from

The 77 pages that link to Science fiction, each with the reason it gives.

• Magical realismCompared with: Science fiction often seeks causal explanations for departures from ordinary reality; magical realism need not.

• NovelBroader topic: Novel-length science fiction can examine the social consequences of an imagined premise.

• Mary ShelleyNarrower topic: Frankenstein is often treated as an early landmark in the genre’s history.

• WorldbuildingRelated: Science-fiction worldbuilding tests how speculative technologies or conditions might reshape civilization.

• FrankensteinNarrower topic: The novel is often treated as an early landmark in fiction about scientific creation.

• Dystopian fictionNarrower topic: Dystopian fiction often uses science-fiction settings, but its defining concern is oppressive social order.

• AfrofuturismNarrower topic: Afrofuturism adapts speculative conventions to Black histories and futures.

• H. G. WellsNarrower topic: Wells’s early novels helped establish the genre’s modern form.

• Arthur C. ClarkeNarrower topic: Clarke became one of the genre’s defining authors.

• Science fiction fandomNarrower topic: The genre supplies the works and ideas around which this community gathers.

• Hard science fictionNarrower topic: Hard science fiction is a mode within this broader genre.

• Popular scienceCompared with: Unlike popular science, it invents possibilities rather than explaining established evidence.

• Science fiction filmNarrower topic: The broader literary and artistic genre from which science fiction films draw conventions.

• Genre fictionBroader topic: Speculative premises distinguish this major genre while supporting many different story forms.

• FantasyCompared with: Science fiction commonly motivates departures from reality through extrapolated science rather than magic.

• Fantasy literatureCompared with: It often explains wonders through speculative science rather than supernatural forces.

• Jules VerneNarrower topic: Verne’s voyages helped establish a durable form of technologically grounded speculative adventure.

• Isaac AsimovNarrower topic: Asimov helped define the genre’s twentieth-century readership and conventions.

• NeologismNarrower topic: Writers in the genre have introduced terms such as “robot” and “cyberspace.”

• New Wave science fictionNarrower topic: New Wave was a movement within this broader genre, not a separate literary category.

• Space operaNarrower topic: Space opera is a major adventure-oriented branch of this broader genre.

• Weird fictionCompared with: Scientific explanation may organize science fiction, whereas weird fiction often makes explanation fail.

• Hugo GernsbackNarrower topic: His publishing helped make the genre a recognizable literary category.

• John W. CampbellNarrower topic: Campbell’s editorial program helped define science fiction’s conventions and readership.

• Supernatural fictionCompared with: Science fiction typically explains extraordinary events through natural laws or speculative science.

• Golden Age of Science FictionNarrower topic: The Golden Age is a historical phase within this broader genre.

• Literary genreBroader topic: It uses speculation to distinguish its imagined worlds and questions.

• Superhero fictionRelated: Superhero stories often borrow speculative explanations for powers and extraordinary settings.

• Amazing StoriesNarrower topic: The magazine was created to publish this genre exclusively.

• Speculative fictionBroader topic: It grounds departures from reality in scientific or technological possibilities.

• The Twilight ZoneRelated: The series used futuristic devices and impossible premises to test human behavior.

• Fantastic literatureCompared with: Science-fictional impossibilities are often framed through speculative natural laws rather than supernatural uncertainty.

• Philip K. DickNarrower topic: Dick reworked the genre’s conventions to investigate perception, power, and human identity.

• Political fictionCompared with: Science fiction may examine power, but its defining framework is speculative science or technology.

• Popular literatureBroader topic: Its speculative premises turn social anxieties and hopes into accessible narrative.

• Harlan EllisonNarrower topic: Science fiction was a central, though not exclusive, part of Ellison’s career.

• Leopoldo LugonesNarrower topic: Lugones’s fantastic tales raise questions about where early science fiction ends and supernatural fiction begins.

• Ray BradburyNarrower topic: Bradbury became a major American writer within this broad genre, while often resisting its labels.

• Samuel R. DelanyNarrower topic: Delany writes within the genre while stretching its assumptions about society and language.

• KaijuNarrower topic: Kaiju plots often use speculative causes to explain monstrous appearances.

• Kazuo IshiguroCompared with: Ishiguro’s speculative novels use imagined technologies chiefly to examine intimate human relationships.

• Kurt VonnegutNarrower topic: Vonnegut uses speculative devices to satirize real social and political conditions.

• Planetary romanceNarrower topic: Planetary romance is one adventure-oriented mode within speculative fiction.

• The Rocky Horror Picture ShowRelated: The film parodies science-fiction imagery through its alien scientist and laboratory.

• 2046Narrower topic: The imagined future gives form to the film’s questions about desire and emotional distance.

• Karel ČapekNarrower topic: Čapek used speculative premises to test ethical and political consequences.

• Frank HerbertNarrower topic: Herbert’s influence helped expand the genre’s scale and political ambition.

• Futures studiesCompared with: Futures studies is an analytical practice, though fiction can supply ideas and scenarios for it.

• Harry MartinsonRelated: Aniara became a landmark Swedish work of speculative literature about spaceflight and catastrophe.

• Junot DíazRelated: Díaz’s love of genre fiction shapes Oscar Wao’s references and its attention to outsiders.