The Science fiction is a popular literary genre, whose content revolves around hypothetical scientific and technical achievements that could happen in the near future, meanwhile, it is precisely this scientific question that he proposes that differentiates him from fantasy genre, in which the situations turn out to be the fruit of the imagination.
Literary genre whose content addresses scientific and technological issues that may happen in a future context
For this characteristic of venturing on scientific and technical triumphs is that this genre has also been known as anticipation literature, especially because of the consequence that many of the authors who excelled in this field, managed to anticipate various situations and also different inventions, which over time, became constant and resounding facts, such is the case of author Jules Verne with his famous submarines and spaceships, which later became a reality of the world in which we live.
Characteristics
Science fiction will also be characterized by the ability to create through the narration that takes place in retro scenarios future scientific, social, philosophical debates, regarding the nature of human beings, and society, generating doubts, anticipating dangers, and obviously looking for answers.
It will try to delve into the causes of man's existence, the context in which he developed, and the impacts of technology and science on humanity as a whole.
The events that are told always have a speculative connotation because they develop precisely in an imaginary context that happens in the past or in the future in which the action is subordinated to the conquest of space, trips to the moon, to other galaxies, human mutations, robots, aliens, alien communities, virtual reality, among others.
With respect to the characters they can be human or artificial entities that respect some human patterns.
origins
The birth of the genre, in reality, occurred as a subgenre, in the year 1920 and then, with time and the success achieved in its wake, it grew until it was considered a full-fledged genre and also expanded to various formats, such is the case of the film industry, which would shelter the gender as a spoiled child; After the second half of the last century and to this day, the growth and multitude of fans that the genre has garnered across the planet has been impressive.
But beware that although a spoiled child of the seventh art, the science fiction genre has landed with enormous success in other media such as television, literature, magazines and comics, so famous and popular they back at the beginning of the last century.
Probably, it has been the cinema that expanded its fame on the planet due to the magnified audiovisual possibilities offered by its format, but we must say that it has captivated from other media as well ...
Science fiction classes
Meanwhile, so much quantity has given rise to differentiation, there are those who speak of the soft science fiction on the one hand and on the other of hard science fiction, depending on the rigor with which scientific facts are treated, obviously, the latter is considered the most scientific, while the former includes assumptions that do not have a proven scientific rigor.
Although it is a gigantic universe that of the topics that science fiction deals with, there are some recurring themes: cloning, genetic engineering, time travel, aliens, outer space colonization, artificial intelligence and robotics, computer networks, among others.
The most prominent authors of this genre have been: Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Lloyd Alexander, Robert Adams, Edward Bellamy, Ray Bradbury, Ray Cummings, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, among others.
The interest that this genre has captured and continues to capture has been the main driver of its fabulous development in all the formats that we have already mentioned, including the incessant advance of new technologies in publishing and production makes growth inexhaustible. and there is no ceiling, so there is still too much to see and increasingly surprising questions ...
There are so many exponents of this genre that it is difficult to mention one in particular, but we will do so to somehow exemplify its manifestation in the cinema. Artificial Intelligence, was a film that dates from 2001 and that has the adaptation, production and direction of one of the greatest exponents of the genre such as Steven Spielberg.
The story addresses the theme of humanoid robots, and thus they create a child robot that will be inserted into the bosom of a conventional couple with all the rarities and complications that this entails.
