Post by account_disabled on Jan 1, 2024 12:59:59 GMT 5
Some time ago I noticed this great difference in terms to indicate this literary genre in our language and in English: science fiction and science fiction (or sci-fi for short ). As if we preferred to focus more on the imaginative aspect of the stories and the Anglo-Saxons more on the scientific one. Is the truth somewhere in the middle? Likely. Thinking about it, however, I feel like I agree with the English term and see science fiction as a scientific narrative . This, I believe, places the genre on a higher level, in which there is room for fantasy - a common and essential element of every literary genre - but above all there must be room for the scientific part. It doesn't mean writing novels that only a scientist would understand, but writing novels that are credible, scientifically valid - within the limits of fiction - and that show a possible world .
The concept of “Science Fiction” The domain of scientific narrative is the possible. Its territory ranges from the Earth we know today to the limits of the possible universes that the human imagination can create, whether in the past, present, future or in an alternative space-time continuum . Therefore scientific fiction is the only literature capable of Special Data exploring the macro-history of our species, and of including our history and even our daily lives, in a cosmic context. H. Bruce Franklin I think that in this passage by Franklin there really is the whole meaning of what is and should be meant by "science fiction": the possible . In fantasy nothing is possible, there are no orcs, elves, there is no magic, those lands with epic names do not exist - even if many authors have created them imagining upheavals in our lands or in any case referring to our geography.
Perhaps we can assert that the domain of fantasy is the impossible. Gulliver's Travels is an example of this. The underground journey by Niels Klim also, both works from the 18th century. And then all the others that we have at least heard of, such as The Lord of the Rings , The Sword of Shannara, A Song of Ice and Fire , the Avalon novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley. In science fiction, in scientific fiction, everything is possible. If you read Asimov, you can't help but believe that one day everything you are reading will come true. Even Trantor, a planet-city with 40 billion inhabitants. But even reading Philip K. Dick you will have the same feeling. The simulacra created in the novel The Android Abraham Lincoln ( We can build you ) are possible. Glimmung is also possible ( Nick and the Glimmung ). And we can say the same about other authors, such as Richard Matheson, Harry Harrison, etc.
The concept of “Science Fiction” The domain of scientific narrative is the possible. Its territory ranges from the Earth we know today to the limits of the possible universes that the human imagination can create, whether in the past, present, future or in an alternative space-time continuum . Therefore scientific fiction is the only literature capable of Special Data exploring the macro-history of our species, and of including our history and even our daily lives, in a cosmic context. H. Bruce Franklin I think that in this passage by Franklin there really is the whole meaning of what is and should be meant by "science fiction": the possible . In fantasy nothing is possible, there are no orcs, elves, there is no magic, those lands with epic names do not exist - even if many authors have created them imagining upheavals in our lands or in any case referring to our geography.
Perhaps we can assert that the domain of fantasy is the impossible. Gulliver's Travels is an example of this. The underground journey by Niels Klim also, both works from the 18th century. And then all the others that we have at least heard of, such as The Lord of the Rings , The Sword of Shannara, A Song of Ice and Fire , the Avalon novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley. In science fiction, in scientific fiction, everything is possible. If you read Asimov, you can't help but believe that one day everything you are reading will come true. Even Trantor, a planet-city with 40 billion inhabitants. But even reading Philip K. Dick you will have the same feeling. The simulacra created in the novel The Android Abraham Lincoln ( We can build you ) are possible. Glimmung is also possible ( Nick and the Glimmung ). And we can say the same about other authors, such as Richard Matheson, Harry Harrison, etc.