Science Fiction

Science fiction is a broad term to describe an interesting genre. It can encompass so many different things, like Frankenstein where it is an science fiction novel, but also doubles as a feminist novel. The science fiction work can also work as metaphor for things going on at the time. The novel 1984 is a futuristic society,but Orwell is criticizing post World War politics. Science fiction serves as a multipurpose canvas where a writer can use science to keep their story grounded. Because science is based on hard fact it can lend it's credibility to a literary work. I really like the fact science fiction is always evolving. It changes with the times and plays on the human fear of what if. How incredible is it that when Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein creating a human was a unfathomable horror. Now in our modern time we've cloned sheep and are making huge leaps with stem cell research. I like science fiction for all the endless possibilities it offers compared to the adventure novels. Adventure novels come off as cliche and a less thought out science fiction work. I don't want to totally cast off adventure novels, but they don't seem to chalk up to other genres.