Science Fiction Subgenres and Themes

Science Fiction Subgenres and Themes

5 May 23Posted inSF Resources
Science fiction encompasses quite a number of subgenres and themes. More often than not, a novel, short story, movie, or TV show will straddle multiple subgenres and deal with more than one theme at once. This contributes to a rich, thoroughly entertaining, and highly intuitive genre of fiction. What follows[…]
Science fiction colony world with buildings and vegetation.

What Is Science Fiction?

5 May 23Posted inSF Resources
Science fiction, coming under the umbrella of speculative fiction, is a broad genre that is not easily defined. So many interlinked subgenres and themes make it difficult to define succinctly. Science fiction grand master Isaac Asimov defined it as “that branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings[…]