Hello, Future! Here we come!
Hi, everyone. This month, our genre is Science Fiction, or sci-fi. Sci-fi, if you haven't heard of it, is set in the future and has technology we don't have today. For example, in Back to the Future 2 (it's a fun movie), there are flying cars. Even though at the time the movie was made there weren't flying cars, they used science to make flying cars theoretically possible. Also, sci-fi may have new problems, related to the technological advances or not. An example of this is Ray Bradbury's story "The Murderer." (If you want to read the story, click here.)
I haven't read much sci-fi, but I have read The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, which are amazing. You should go read them right now. I shall have to post about them sometime.On a different note, it is debatable whether Star Wars and Star Trek count as sci-fi, for various reasons. Some people believe they are science fiction because they include technological advances proved by science we do not have today (like such amazing spaceships). However, they aren't true sci-fi because they include other races that don't actually exist (jawas, vulcans, etc.) and aren't theoretically possible. Sometimes, they also include more fantasy-like elements like the Force. This is called science-fantasy.
What have you been reading/watching in science fiction lately? Do you like science fiction?
Live long and prosper.
Spruce Nogard
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