what is science fiction and all the bookes of science fiction?

Answer 1

Science fiction is fiction (make-believe) that is written from a scientific basis. Things like space travel, colonies on other planets, time travel, human-computer cyborgs, etc.

There are probably MILLIONS of science fiction books, so it would be impossible to list them all, of course.

Answer 2

There are basically two school of science fiction -- hard sciene fiction and soft science fiction.

Soft science fiction is any story where the science is an integral part of the story, but where the science isn't necessarily accurate. Things like invisible men, shape shifting characters, and such. Another way of describing them would be futuristic fantasy.

Hard science fiction is any story where the scinece is an integral part of the story, i.e., you take the science away and the story falls apart, but the science needs to be based in actual scientific theory, or if it isn't, it needs to be explained in such a way that current scientific through will support it.

There is a kind of hybrid between the two that allows for things like Faster Than Light Travel but by and large the best science fiction tends to be in the hard SF camp rather than in the soft SF camp.

As far as all the books of science fiction, well, there's tens of thousands of them.

Answer 3

Science Fiction (SF) is the fiction of science, technology, frontiers and people. It takes ideas from these areas and asks "what if" questions about them:

"What if people could travel to distant planets?"
"What if people could live forever?"
"What if aliens visited us?"
"What if we could read each others' minds?"

Science fiction began in the 17th century during the Age of Reason, as authors found that a rational frame offered interesting answers to questions about how things might be beyond their experience. E.g. in the 1600s, Cyrano de Bergerac wrote about how it might be to take a trip to the moon. But SF really took off in the early 20th century as mass-produced technology began to change peoples' lives every few years. A lot more people began to wonder "what if".

SF is mainly entertainment, but it often provokes thought about technology, society, life and the universe. Some SF has had significant impact on human thought. Among these you could include Mary Shelley's /Frankenstein/, Aldous Huxley's /Brave New World/ and George Orwell's /1984/. SF also has an impact on popular culture, e.g. in movies like /Star Wars/ or /The Terminator/.

As other posters have responded, there are a *lot* of SF books. A large bookstore may have hundreds of current SF titles on the shelves, and there are many more out of print.

Answer 4

The definition of science fiction is Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society.

This is a web site that lists quite a few sci-fi books: http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/SF-Index.html

Wikipedia has a list of science fiction authors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction_author and a list of science fiction novels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_novels

Here are more lists:
http://www.sfbooklist.co.uk/
http://www.adherents.com/adh_sf.html
http://www.sfbc.com/doc/content/sitelets/FSE_Sitelet_Theme_2.jhtml?SID=nmsfctop50
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/

I hope this helps you!