Science Fiction Research Project - Initial Research

What is Science Fiction? - 
J. O. Bailey. 1947. "A piece of scientific fiction is a narrative of an imaginary invention or discovery in the natural sciences and consequent adventures and experiences... It must be a scientific discovery—something that the author at least rationalises as possible to science.”

Theodore Sturgeon. 1952. "A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.”

Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society.”

Edmund Crispin. 1955. A science fiction story "is one that presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact experienced."

What is the First Example of Science Fiction?

The two earliest examples of science fiction are Johannes Kepler's Somnium (1634) and Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone (1638). Both books depict protagonists traveling to the moon. Somnium is the more religiously inspired of the two, with a boy being drawn to the moon – an island in the sky known as Levania – by a daemon. Godwin's science fiction novel, however, is an adventure novel where a character adventures into the depths of space, coming across insane, intense sights along the way. Many adventure stories, inspired by the voyages to the New World, saw the potential of unique civilizations living beyond the sky. Often, science was described in abstract ways. Space typically was described as being full of aether or air, which, to a modern perspective, comes across as a little bizarre.

https://vocal.media/futurism/history-of-science-fiction-part-i

What are some of the Most Famous Examples of Science Fiction?

Books - The War of the Worlds, Frankenstein, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World

Movies - 2001: A Space Odyssey,  A Clockwork Orange, Solaris, Alien, Blade Runner

What are Some Example of Science Fiction that have Predicted the Future?

The iconic Communicator device on "Star Trek," first shown in 1966, looked a lot like a flip phone. Though engineers were working on developing this technology in the 1960s, it took Motorola until 1973 to debut the world's first mobile phone. 

In 1865, author Jules Verne released From Earth to the Moon, which described three Americans' mission to launch a spacecraft and land on the moon. Parts of the novel were similar to the first real moon landing, which occurred 104 years later.

Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, which was published in 1870, featured a submarine fully powered by electricity. At the time, only mechanically powered submarines were in use.The French submarine "Gymnote," which was created in 1888 and ran on electric power, was more similar to Verne's Nautilus than the submarines that preceded the novel's publication.

Verne also predicted that people would one day listen to news instead of just reading the newspaper. He made the prediction in 1889, but the first radio broadcast didn't occur until the 1920s. -“Instead of being printed, the Earth Chronicle is every morning spoken to subscribers, who, from interesting conversations with reporters, statesmen and scientists, learn the news of the day," Verne wrote in the 1889 short story In the Year 2889.

https://www.sciencealert.com/these-15-wild-sci-fi-predictions-about-future-tech-actually-came-true

What are some Interesting Examples of how Science Fiction has Been Visually Depicted/Represented?(these questions kind of tie together)What are Some of Your Personal Favourite Examples of Science Fiction, and Why?






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