history: What's Science fiction all about?
knowledge: Science fiction (often shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
response: It's a genre, sometimes shortened to sci-fi. Usually all about futuristic science and technology. Stuff like time travel or space travel for example.
history: What's Science fiction all about?
It's a genre, sometimes shortened to sci-fi. Usually all about futuristic science and technology. Stuff like time travel or space travel for example.
Why the use of bother terms science and fiction,why not simply science or fiction?
knowledge: Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a ''literature of ideas''.
response: I'm not sure, but the genre often thinks about the consequences of innovations in science.
history: What's Science fiction all about?
It's a genre, sometimes shortened to sci-fi. Usually all about futuristic science and technology. Stuff like time travel or space travel for example.
Why the use of bother terms science and fiction,why not simply science or fiction?
I'm not sure, but the genre often thinks about the consequences of innovations in science.
So are they related to movies?
knowledge: Historically, science-fiction stories have had a grounding in actual science, but now this is only expected of hard science fiction.
response: I couldn't say. Historically, though, science fiction was grounded in real science, though these days that sort of thing is limited to what is called hard science fiction.
history: What's Science fiction all about?
It's a genre, sometimes shortened to sci-fi. Usually all about futuristic science and technology. Stuff like time travel or space travel for example.
Why the use of bother terms science and fiction,why not simply science or fiction?
I'm not sure, but the genre often thinks about the consequences of innovations in science.
So are they related to movies?
I couldn't say. Historically, though, science fiction was grounded in real science, though these days that sort of thing is limited to what is called hard science fiction.
What sci-fi movie do you know of, maybe, that could explain the concept better?
knowledge: Science fiction film (or sci-fi film) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies.
response: I don't know of one, but the films often use science-based depictions of things that aren't really in the mainstream of science, like aliens and ESP.