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Bookmark or Share- Science fiction - Time travel | BritannicaStories centred on time-travel paradoxes developed as a separate school of science fiction. If a human being broke free from the conventional chains of causality, intriguing metaphysical puzzles ensued.
- science fiction summary | Britannicascience fiction, Fiction dealing principally with the impact of actual or imagined science on society or individuals, or more generally, literary fantasy including a scientific factor as an essential orienting component.
- Science fiction - Utopias, Dystopias, Futurism | BritannicaScience fiction - Utopias, Dystopias, Futurism: Sir Thomas More’s learned satire Utopia (1516)—the title is based on a pun of the Greek words eutopia (“good place”) and outopia (“no place”)—shed an analytic light on 16th-century England along rational, humanistic lines.
- Science fiction - Origins, Genre, Authors | BritannicaScience fiction - Origins, Genre, Authors: In 1818 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley took the next major step in the evolution of science fiction when she published Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. Champions of Shelley as the “mother of science fiction” emphasize her innovative fictional scheme.
- H.G. Wells | Biography, Books, & Facts | BritannicaH.G. Wells, English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. Learn more about Wells’s life and accomplishments in this article.
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