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• usatisfactory but firmly established term for an anglo-american literary genre that shows avarege human beings confronted by some novelty, usually daunting: an invasion from from another planet, s plague, space travel, time travel, a non-human civilization, a society ruled by machines, etc. there are anticipations in tales of wonder from the 17th century onwards and notably in the work of jules verne but the firs and still the greatest true exponent wad h g wells in the time machine(1895) the war of the worlds(1898) etc. until about 1940 most stories involved gadgetry, simple menace, or fantastic adventure. the next 25 years widened the range to include political economic technological and psychological speculation. in the later 1960s the so-called new wave imitated the stylistic and presentational trickery of the anti-novel but this has passed and the genre has returned to its traditional themes though with an added emphasis on the ptentialities of the mind and on philosophical questions. often ostensibly concerned with the future, science fiction at its best "throws a fresh light on today".
  leading writers include brian w. aldiss, isaac asimoc, j.g. ballard, arthur c clark, philip k dick, harry harrison, damon knight, ursula le guin, frederik pohl, and robert silverberg. the abbreviations sf(caps) and sf are aprroved by practioners and connoisseurs; sci-fic and sci-fi are not
  
  kaynak b.w. aldiss: billion-year spree
  science fiction history uzerine bi kitap