Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of story telling setting out alternatives to what is currently considered scientifically possible or creating extrapolations from present-day knowledge. It is generally set in the future and often in non-Terrestrial locales. It is found in short stories, novels, and motion picture form, and also on television and radio. Science fiction is generally considered to have been introduced in the nineteenth century by authors such as Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe and H.G. Wells, but became more widely popular in the second half of the twentieth century.

See also

• Fiction