KnowraScience fictionLinked fromLinked fromThe 77 pages that link to Science fiction, each with the reason it gives.All 77Broader topic 5Related 13Narrower topic 47Compared with 12Magical realismCompared with: Science fiction often seeks causal explanations for departures from ordinary reality; magical realism need not.Popular scienceCompared with: Unlike popular science, it invents possibilities rather than explaining established evidence.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.Weird fictionCompared with: Scientific explanation may organize science fiction, whereas weird fiction often makes explanation fail.Supernatural fictionCompared with: Science fiction typically explains extraordinary events through natural laws or speculative science.Fantastic literatureCompared with: Science-fictional impossibilities are often framed through speculative natural laws rather than supernatural uncertainty.Political fictionCompared with: Science fiction may examine power, but its defining framework is speculative science or technology.Kazuo IshiguroCompared with: Ishiguro’s speculative novels use imagined technologies chiefly to examine intimate human relationships.Futures studiesCompared with: Futures studies is an analytical practice, though fiction can supply ideas and scenarios for it.Michio KakuCompared with: Kaku’s nonfiction forecasts overlap in subject matter with futures imagined in science fiction.History of fantasyCompared with: Its appeal to speculative science contrasts with fantasy’s customary use of magic or marvels.