# Science Fiction

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:36.601Z
Tags: literature, science, fiction

## Summary

Science fiction is the literature that takes one premise its world does not allow — a different physics, a different history, a different species — and follows the consequences with a straight face. Key sections include: Science Fiction.; A FIRST WORD What sf is for.; CHAPTER I Cognitive estrangement.; CHAPTER II Before there was a name.; CHAPTER III The first sf novel.; CHAPTER IV Verne · the engineering romance.; CHAPTER V Wells · the social novel under cover.; CHAPTER VI The magazine era.; CHAPTER VII The Golden Age.; CHAPTER VIII Dune · the ecological epic..

## Slide Outline

1. Science Fiction.
2. A FIRST WORD What sf is for.
3. CHAPTER I Cognitive estrangement.
4. CHAPTER II Before there was a name.
5. CHAPTER III The first sf novel.
6. CHAPTER IV Verne · the engineering romance.
7. CHAPTER V Wells · the social novel under cover.
8. CHAPTER VI The magazine era.
9. CHAPTER VII The Golden Age.
10. CHAPTER VIII Dune · the ecological epic.
11. CHAPTER IX The New Wave.
12. CHAPTER X Le Guin.
13. CHAPTER XI Dick · paranoia as method.
14. CHAPTER XII Delany · the experimental sf novel.
15. CHAPTER XIII Feminist sf.
16. CHAPTER XIV Butler.
17. CHAPTER XV Cyberpunk.
18. CHAPTER XVI The post-cyberpunk grand canvas.
19. CHAPTER XVII The New Weird.
20. CHAPTER XVIII Chinese sf goes global.
21. CHAPTER XIX Jemisin.
22. CHAPTER XX Chiang · the philosophical short.
23. CHAPTER XXI Climate fiction.
24. CHAPTER XXII The cosy turn.
25. CHAPTER XXIII Dystopia.
26. CHAPTER XXIV The hard / soft distinction.
27. CHAPTER XXV Sf on the screen.
28. CHAPTER XXVI Thirty essential sf books.
29. CHAPTER XXVII Where to go next.
30. End of transmission.

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