1. Science Fiction

2. Definition Fiction: made up stories
Science: systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
Science + Fiction: untrue stories about phys. and material world determined through observation and experimentation

3. Elements of Science Fiction
Setting: Takes place in the future (Compared to when written)
Setting: Takes place in space/undiscovered realms
Different planets, galaxies, universes, alien life forms
Contains ideas and inventions that did not exist when the book/movie/etc. was created BUT could exist some day
Time travel, video phones, robots with feelings, etc.

4. Elements of Science Fiction
Makes comments or warnings about the way people were living or acting at the time the book/movie/etc. was created
Social issues: racism, family life
Political issues: Communism, education
Environmental issues: pollution, waste

5. Elements of Science Fiction
Often confused with fantasy
Major difference: science fiction could happen, fantasy cannot
Sci-fi: Meeting aliens on another planet
Fantasy: fairy god mothers, vampires, wizards

6. Well-known Writers Isaac Asimov - I, Robot
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker’s series
George Orwell