Knowra Science fiction Science fiction Science fiction is a genre of imaginative storytelling that explores invented technologies, scientific possibilities, and their effects on individuals and societies.
Speculative fiction : A broad category of fiction that imagines worlds or events differing from known reality. Science fiction is one branch of storytelling built around imagined departures from the known world.
Mary Shelley : An English novelist whose 1818 novel Frankenstein depicts an artificial being created through experimental science. Frankenstein made scientific ambition and its human consequences central to a lasting narrative tradition.
Hugo Gernsback : A publisher and editor who popularized science-fiction magazines and promoted fiction linked to scientific education. His magazines helped establish the genre's name and a durable publishing community.
Climate fiction : Fiction that foregrounds climate change and its effects on environments, societies, and lives. It applies speculative storytelling to the consequences of a scientifically grounded planetary crisis.
Fantasy : A genre of imaginative storytelling in which supernatural or magical elements are central. Its conventions often explain wonders through magic rather than scientific possibility.
Worldbuilding : The creation of a fictional setting's geography, history, societies, and governing rules. Consistent imagined worlds let scientific changes reshape societies rather than remain isolated devices.
Frankenstein : Mary Shelley's 1818 novel about Victor Frankenstein, who creates a living being and abandons it. Its experiment, creator, and neglected creation became enduring science-fiction subjects.
Isaac Asimov : An American writer and biochemist known for science-fiction stories about robots, empires, and scientific ideas. His robot stories made ethical rules for artificial beings a widely recognized genre motif.
Cyberpunk : A science-fiction subgenre combining advanced technology with social disorder, corporate power, or urban life. It explores how digital technologies might intensify inequality and concentrate power.
Horror fiction : Fiction designed to evoke fear, dread, or revulsion through threatening events or entities. Science fiction can create horror, but its defining focus is speculative change rather than fear.
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