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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Military science fictionNarrower topic: Military science fiction uses speculative settings to examine armed forces and conflict.

• Stanisław LemNarrower topic: It is the genre Lem transformed into a vehicle for philosophical inquiry.

• A True StoryNarrower topic: Later accounts often call Lucian’s lunar voyage an early ancestor of science fiction.

• Arkady and Boris StrugatskyNarrower topic: Their novels reshape familiar science-fiction devices into ethical and political problems.

• Cyrano de BergeracNarrower topic: Cyrano's cosmic voyages are frequently discussed as precursors to science fiction.

• I Have No Mouth, and I Must ScreamNarrower topic: The story turns speculative computing into a source of horror.

• Jonathan LethemNarrower topic: Lethem uses speculative devices even when his novels resist a single genre label.

• Ni KuangNarrower topic: It is the principal genre associated with Ni Kuang’s Wisely stories.

• PluribusNarrower topic: Pluribus uses a speculative transformation to examine human society.

• Rick and MortyNarrower topic: The series uses science-fiction premises as engines for adventure and satire.

• Alexander BelyaevNarrower topic: Belyaev used scientific premises to build plots around transformation, power, and responsibility.

• Anne McCaffreyNarrower topic: McCaffrey’s work brought science-fiction conventions into stories featuring dragons and other fantasy elements.

• BugoniaNarrower topic: Its alien premise places a contemporary kidnapping inside a science-fiction framework.

• Catherynne M. ValenteNarrower topic: Her novels use speculative futures and invented technologies alongside mythic material.

• Iain BanksNarrower topic: Banks used this genre to explore politics, civilization, and artificial intelligence.

• Naomi MitchisonNarrower topic: Her science fiction extended her recurring interest in communication and social organization.

• Orson Scott CardNarrower topic: Card’s most influential novels belong to this genre and helped shape its modern readership.

• Sergei LukyanenkoNarrower topic: Lukyanenko’s work spans science fiction as well as fantasy.