What is science fiction?

Question

What do YOU think science fiction is? Fantasy? Fiction? Do you think it could be a prediction of the future?

Answer 1

Good science fiction is speculative fiction. It takes a problem or issue from the present and projects it into the future to show or warn people what will happen if we proceed on our present course.

There are subdivisions of science fiction including my personal favorite cyberpunk popularized by William Gibson and Neal Stephenson which focuses on high tech and low life and often includes computerhackers, AI, man against giant corporation etc, The Matrix uses many cyberpunk devices. Pax - C