Science And Fiction: The Consequences Of Science Fiction

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What is Science Fiction? “ Science fiction at its best, creates the sort of flexible thinking that not only inspires us, but requires us to consider the many potential consequences of our actions.” ( Chris McKittrick).The quote states how science fiction affects us in our actions, if science fiction inspires you, your actions will show how much admire science fiction gives. Science Fiction is the literature of changes based on imagined future in a scientific or technological way, mostly about outer space or time travel and life on other planets.
Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology in the future. Science fiction provides an approach to understanding the universe.( Chris Mckittrick).It …show more content…

“Science Fiction” or “Speculative Fiction” as fiction or film that portrays “a changed world that has not yet come into being”. This “change” has to be significantly different, and “consistent with the... arguments of contemporary science” including extensions of current scientific thinking for a text to qualify. Common motifs in Science Fiction include space travel, alien visitors, machines, urban jungles, alternate energy forms, nuclear explosions, weapons, and colonies in bio-domes on other planets; all of which mirror the dreams and inventions of industrialised society.(Hubpages) To wrap this up, Guardians of the galaxy, Men in Black, the hitchhiker guide to the galaxy are amazing examples of science fiction. In the story vogons are an example of aliens. The guardians of the galaxy mostly is in outer space, Drax, Gamora, Rocket, Groot, and Sherlock are protecting and saving the galaxy, and they are using spaceships and outer space as part of the setting which is science fiction. The setting of Men in Black is earth but still had space ships. All of these three texts are a perfect example of science fiction and these are more stories or movies which are amazing examples of science

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