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I think most of the best science fiction, defined as books that experienced SF readers tend to call the best, does try to describe the effects of science and technology--or sometimes new human abilities, e.g., Dune, More Than Human--on society. Science fiction that doesn't is what some persons call "gadget stories," and at the moment, I'm drawing a blank trying to think of a popular gadget story.
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Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology or space opera and more with speculation about society. In other words, it "absorbs and discusses anthropology" and speculates about human behavior and interactions.
Jul 12, 2024 · As the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing said, “Science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.” Over two years ago, we published a version of this list featuring 50 ...
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Aug 12, 2023 · The Social Commentary of Science Fiction. Since its inception, sci-fi has acted as a social barometer, picking up on the nuanced intricacies of the time, reshaping them into imaginative narratives, and presenting them in settings distant enough from reality to provoke thought without direct offense.
Aug 3, 2017 · The first was the power of science fiction as a tool for scientific and social advocacy and cultural insight: Erren and Falaturi said that science fiction might be used “to smuggle scientific facts into the consciousness of a scientifically illiterate public” and Kotasek concluded that as society depends upon the influence of our models of reality, so science fiction has a role in ...
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May 16, 2021 · The very best of the genre, the utopias and dystopias that resonate most strongly with readers and viewers, are not, however, stories that merely invent marvels of tomorrow, but the science fiction that also comments on today’s social issues. Science fiction has a habit of surrounding hot-button topics with aliens, spaceships, and time-travel ...
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Science fiction and fantasy opened my mind to worlds where diversity was embraced rather than shunned or met with violence. Sadly, progress is a case of two steps forward, one step back. We seem to be in the stepping-back phase, so here are five works of science fiction and fantasy, past and present, that challenge readers to examine society critically and, hopefully, change it for the better.
