Why would an author write a science fiction novel?

Answer 1

IN the case of TRUE science fiction, because they are in one way or another concerned with the future. Science fiction is speculative fiction. The author takes an issue in the present and projects it into the future and uses his or her work to comment on the situation and hopefully affect how people view the subject in the present. For instance Cormac Mc Carthy's The Road - the newest Pulitzer Prize winning book - is about a post-apocalyptic world. His message is "this is what it will be like if we continue our course toward world destruction". Pax-C

Answer 2

Lots of reasons. Some authors like to dream about the possibilities of where science can take us or the ramifications further-expanded science might have on our culture.

Science fiction is a great way to highlight important issues in an imaginative, non-threatening way. A lot of early science fiction (from the '50s, for example) addressed the issues of Communism and the Red Scare/witch hunt. The book Dune is often interpreted as an allegorical look at the world's dependence on oil and the Gulf states that provide much of it. Octavia Butler's books look at more cultural and social issues like personal relationship and religion.

Other writers just like to write about space ships and aliens, or imagine "what if?"

It all depends on the author.

Answer 3

First, all stories have been told. There isn't a single theme that has never been presented as a story. The only differences with today's stories are the premise and the settings are different. Science Fiction (and also Fantasy) provide a new setting to tell the same stories but in new ways because those genres offer settings that are limited only by the imagination of the author.

Science Fiction and Fantasy also are flexible enough that mixing genres can produce novel yet familiar settings such as a detective story in space.

Authors who write Science Fiction are attracted to it for the same reason people who like horror or romance. They like the conventions that have developed within the genre and are comfortable telling their story within those conventions.

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Answer 4

Science Fiction is speculative fiction about technology, people and frontiers. Any time you have questions or themes relating to these topics, you can consider science fiction as a vehicle to explore them.

At its best, Science Fiction offers us rational, considered answers to "what if" questions on these topics. We can cast SF into the future "What if people lived on other planets?" or into the past "What if Vikings had settled successfully in the Americas?" or into the present "What if people could read one anothers' minds?"

Science Fiction tends to attract readers and writers who are happy to imagine outside their own realities, and who like to solve problems by thinking about them rather than feeling their way through them. There are more logical arguments in SF literature than emotional ones.

The quality of SF literature depends in part on the quality of the questions we ask - and this varies depending on how society and technologies develop. SF treatments vary from entertaining escapism to thought-provoking discourse.

Some SF classics that have had strong impact on social thought include George Orwell's /1984/, Aldous Huxley's /Brave New World/ and Mary Shelley's /Frankenstein/. SF that has had strong impact on popular culture includes HG Wells' /The Time Machine/ and /War of the Worlds/, and Lucas' /Star Wars/

Answer 5

They're interested in the subject material. From what I understand, science fiction is some of the hardest to write because you're having to come up with completely new material, new worlds.

Answer 6

Why not? Science blended with fiction is a good combination if handled properly.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

1 money
2 fame
3 groupies
4 the urge to write
5 he likes science fiction
6 he is good at it

Answer 9

Why not?