Defining Science Fiction (Diogenes' Chicken)
Channel: Doc Sloan's Science Fiction Station
Date: 2021-07-14

Trying to define science fiction is very problematic, with critics more often saying what science fiction is not, rather than what it actually is. Many definitions of science fiction fail because of the works that they exclude. It's a bit like Diogenes' chicken (look it up).
Are any of these definitions helpful to the reader of science fiction? 
Probably not.
Do we care?
Probably not.
But what the hell...
Let's take a look at a few of the more accepted definitions of the genre, before telling you what I really think.

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A whole bunch of definitions can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_science_fiction