2007-03-05 13:57:55 · 9 answers · asked by can_d08 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Fahrenheit 451 falls under the heading of speculative fiction - taking a problem or issue from the present and projecting it into the future. That is the definition of great science fiction.
2007-03-05 14:04:51 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's science fiction. Today people have all these negative connotations towards the genre. They believe that just because something is SF (never sci-fi, big no-no in the genre) it can't be literature. So any of the great authors of old, like Bradbury and Orwell, are plucked from the genre and moved over to the Fiction & Literature shelf at bookstores. But that can't change the author's intentions, the time period in which the book was written, or the fundamental core of the story. Fahrenheit 451 was written by an SF author. He wrote it intending for it to be SF. When it came out, the ideas it invoked were revolutionary and "out of this world" for the time period. That makes it SF. People just have to start accepting that great literature transcends genre, and even SF can speak eternal truths about society and the human condition.
2007-03-06 00:36:32 · answer #2 · answered by ap1188 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I first read this book in the early 1970s. At the time I and I think everyone on the planet would have classified this as Scifi. I think at the time any of Vonnegut's books would have been so classified.
Now, almost 40 years later, I would consider this simply as fiction; on the same level as anything by Dan Brown, or Tom Clancy.
My take on Scifi is a book that deals heavily with fictional science, extraterrestrial, or other worldly themes.
2007-03-05 14:28:27 · answer #3 · answered by olivia54984 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's science fiction, in the sense that it uses fictional technology as a major part of the setting.
2007-03-05 14:05:43 · answer #4 · answered by starsonmymind 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would consider it science fiction, but that's just a subcategory under the larger umbrella of fiction. You're not going to go wrong categorizing it either way.
2007-03-05 14:52:27 · answer #5 · answered by Amy M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is futuristic fiction, but is not science fiction per se. Just because it had super TV screens, monitoring systems, and metal dogs doesn't mean it's sci fi.
2007-03-05 14:05:40 · answer #6 · answered by doctorevil64 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Social Fiction
Like Brazil
Great book, I have the F451 game on 5" Floppy!
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2007-03-05 14:07:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
About the only thing I can think of in that story that is science-related is the omnipresent monitoring screens. It isn't really about science/high-tech at all, so I don't count it as sci-fi.
2007-03-05 14:06:14 · answer #8 · answered by Larry 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sci-fi, just my opinion though.
2007-03-05 14:04:51 · answer #9 · answered by Chris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋