Science fiction Books
The first mission to Europa-Jupiter's enigmatic moon-has landed, and humanity’s darkest fears are about to awaken. For years, mankind has speculated that ...
MANKIND HAS FINALLY BLOWN ITSELF OFF THE MAP Nuclear war. The greatest single threat facing mankind. The arsenals of a man-made Armageddon await only a ...
Award-winning author and scientist Gregory Benford has collected all-new, hard-science stories about miniature universes of every imaginable kind. These 13 ...
What would have happened if history had been different-if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way-or not at all? From a ...
Startling alternative history has been a popular sub-genre of military history and science fiction for years and has recently reached new heights of ...
Fourteen of science fiction's most popular writers--including L. Sprague de Camp, Robert Silverberg, and Kim Stanley Robinson--offer their visions of an ...
"Hard" science fiction takes known science and scientific principles as its starting point and is, for many readers, the core of the field. Hard SF is also ...
Poul Anderson was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. Named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1997, he ...
This new edition of Brian Aldiss' classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years, from Isaac Asimov's ...
In the year 2137 the world stands on the brink of ruin. Pollution, war and overpopulation have darkened the skies, photosynthesis has begun to fail and most ...
From the author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Doors, another fantastical, stand-alone novel in which a trio of seemingly everyday people are ...
An American astronaut fights to stop a massive terrorist plot from destroying the east coast in this action-packed technothriller. "Think Die Hard happening ...
A science fiction and tech-vision anthology about the coming era of transparency in the Information Age David Brin, Hugo award-winning author of The Uplift ...
From the infinite universes of quantum theory to the mysteries of mind and heart, from mythic depths to the end of humanity, Damien Broderick speaks all the ...
This text brings together a collection of stories about travel by celebrated science fiction writers: a family takes a package tour to the Crucifixion; ...
Description
Science fiction (often abbreviated as SF or sci-fi, with varying punctuation and capitalization) is a broad genre of fiction that typically explores speculative ideas based on current or future science and technology. Science fiction stories appear in a variety of media, including books, art, television, film, games, and theater. In some organizational or marketing contexts, science fiction is synonymous with the broader term speculative fiction, which encompasses all imaginative works that go beyond contemporary reality—this includes fantasy, horror, and related genres.
While science fiction and fantasy are often grouped together as science fiction/fantasy, they are distinct. Science fiction differs from fantasy in that its imaginary elements are usually plausible within scientifically established or scientifically theorized laws of nature, even if they involve a degree of speculative creativity. Traditionally, science fiction explores the consequences of these speculative ideas, earning it the label “literature of ideas.” Science fantasy, on the other hand, combines imaginative speculation with fantastical elements, entertainingly and logically portraying alternate possibilities in worlds that defy known reality.