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      • The fiction part of science fiction means, of course, that it’s a fictional story—not a real-life account. The word science refers to the fact that the story in some way involves science or technology that—no matter how advanced—is depicted as being based on real scientific principles, as opposed to involving magic or the supernatural.
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  1. Oct 23, 2018 · So how important is the science in science fiction? And does it matter if books and films created for entertainment largely ignore the rules of physics? To help answer these questions, I sought out three different perspectives: from a physicist who has written about science; a film-maker who has won an award for her sci-fi short; and a novelist ...

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  2. Aug 3, 2017 · Connections between science fiction and human culture. Primary fictional sources in literature, film and drama, theological literature, and criticism. Qualitative. The allure and dread of technology often parallels human metaphysical and theological concerns and concepts.

    • Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Karen Diane Cheer
    • 2017
  3. Oct 15, 2020 · Science fiction has been radically reimagined over the last 10 years. Seven science fiction pros explain about how everything in the genre is changing

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  4. Feb 1, 2024 · We show that this hypothesis can explain (1) why science fiction works are perceived as homogenous and different from works of fiction of other genres, (2) why science fiction emerged and became culturally successful rather late in literary history, and (3) why the preference for science fiction varies across time, across space, and across ...

  5. May 22, 2021 · At the heart of this captivating book is the long and complicated relationship between science and sci-fi, in which fiction serves to reflect and reflect upon science, the production of which has in turn been influenced by science fiction.

  6. Oct 9, 2020 · Science fiction has been described as “a crucial and popular mode, even the mainstream mode, of thinking about life in a modern technoscientific world” (Weiner et al., 2018, p. 7) and, in popular forms, can provide remarkable insights into cultural perspectives and assumptions (Menadue, 2019b).

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  8. May 21, 2021 · For MIT students, the permeable relationship between reality and science fiction is often familiar territory. In their labs and research projects, students and faculty experience personally the process by which imaginative ideas turn into new techniques, possibilities, medicines, tools, and technologies.

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