science fiction
genre of speculative fiction that imagines advanced and futuristic changes in technology, scientific knowledge, or biological systems
Facts
14 properties- Instance of
- speculative fiction genre
- Subclass of
- speculative fiction
- Short name
- SF[8]
- Described by source
- Metzler Literatur Lexikon (2 ed.), Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction[5][6]
- Fandom
- science fiction fandom
- Hashtag
- sci_fi[10]
- History of topic
- history of science fiction[9]
- Image harvest run
- pdhero-20261109T023118Z
- Image last checked license
- CC BY 3.0
- Image unavailable reason
- no_pd_license
- Main subject
- science, technology[3][4]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- Art+Feminism, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12][13]
- Practiced by
- science fiction writer[11]
- Topic has template
- Template:Science fiction[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en sci-fi
en scifi
en SF
en sci fi
en sciencefiction
en science fiction
en science-fiction
ar خيال علمي
cs sci-fi
cs vědecko-fantastická literatura
cs vědecká fikce
cs scifi
cs science fiction
cs vědecko-fantastické umění
de Sciencefiction
de SF
de Scifi
de Sci-Fi
de Science Fiction
el ΕΦ
🔖 Identifiers · 80
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- sh85118629
- GND ID
- 1098433076
- OpenAlex ID
- C103631927
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Celia-hovering-airship mango concept-art 02.png ↗
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
- 412355736
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
- 810
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
- 300055919
- Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
- scot/9386
- Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID
- 7202
- BBC News topic ID
- c9g6vqk8yqkt
- BBC Things ID
- a45b1373-aa68-48db-b5e0-f987f427cf79
- BHCL UUID
- 0c206b78-c4aa-4d42-8566-857b83cdc2e4
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- BNCF Thesaurus ID
- 7623
- BabelNet ID
- 00069672n
- Comic Vine ID
- 4015-56103
- Cultureel Woordenboek ID
- literatuur-internationaal/sciencefiction
- De Agostini ID
- fantasciènza
- Described at URL
- www.gutenberg.org, www.goodreads.com
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 808.838762
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
- 18PYvk
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
- 229934
- Encyclopedia of Ideas ID
- science-fiction
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID
- sci_fi
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- art/science-fiction
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- science-fiction
- Eska.pl topic ID
- tg-8L7a-sukZ-cfiW
- FAST ID
- 1108566
- FactGrid item ID
- Andrea Roth
- Fancyclopedia 3 ID
- Science_Fiction
- Fandom article ID
- scifi:science_fiction, de.memory-alpha:Science_Fiction, memory-alpha:Science_fiction, fr.memory-alpha:Science-fiction, starwars:Science_fiction
- Fandom wiki ID
- scifi, science-fiction
- Fanlore article ID
- Science_Fiction
- FilmPolski ID
- 42703
- France 24 topic ID (French)
- science-fiction
- Freebase ID
- /m/06n90
- GitHub topic
- science-fiction
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- ciencia-ficcio
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0090456
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- science_fiction
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 2252170
- HDS ID
- 031212
- Harper's tag
- science-fiction
- IAB code
- 652
- J9U entity ID
- 987007563230905171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)
- science-fiction
- Klexikon article ID
- Science-Fiction
- Krugosvet article (archived)
- kultura_i_obrazovanie/literatura/FANTASTIKA_NAUCHNAYA.html
- Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID
- 2026
- Lemmy community ID
- sciencefiction@lemmy.world
- Lex ID
- science_fiction
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 103631927
- NE.se ID
- science-fiction
- New York Times topic ID
- subject/science-fiction
- Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form ID
- 271
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
- 514199
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3973337
- Open Library subject ID
- science_fiction
- Personality Database profile ID
- 51142
- Quora topic ID
- Science-Fiction-genre
- RKD thesaurus ID
- 33172
- RationalWiki ID
- Science_fiction
- Stack Exchange site URL
- scifi.stackexchange.com
- Stack Exchange tag
- worldbuilding.stackexchange.com
- Storia della civiltà europea ID
- la-fantascienza
- Subreddit
- scifi, scifiwriting, sciencefiction, asksciencefiction, AskScienceFiction
- TV Tropes ID
- Main/ScienceFiction
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:Speculative fiction/Science fiction
- Topic's main category
- Category:Science fiction
- Treccani ID
- fantascienza, fantascienza
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
- fantascienza
- Vikidia article ID
- en:Science_fiction, es:Ciencia_ficción, fr:Science-fiction
- WikiKids ID
- Sciencefiction
- WordLift URL
- data.thenextweb.com
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 06380251-n
- X (Twitter) topic ID
- 847869772129685504
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/292bd051-4039-4fe3-a6f8-b4d187adb3d0
- Yandex Music genre ID
- sciencefiction
- Zhihu topic ID
- 19552214
🔗 Connections
← Genre 2358
← Field of work 208
Subtypes 29
← Main subject 26
← Facet of 24
← Category combines topics 17
Category:Science fiction television series,
Category:Science fiction video games,
Category:Science fiction by genre,
Category:Science fiction franchises,
Category:American science fiction comedy films,
Category:Science fiction works,
Category:Women science fiction and fantasy writers,
Category:Science fiction book series
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← Interested in 6
Influenced 4
Main subject 2
On focus list of Wikimedia project 2
← Movement 2
Examples 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Fandom 1
Has these parts 1
History of topic 1
Practiced by 1
Subclass of 1
Topic has template 1
Topic's main Wikimedia portal 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Field of this occupation 1
← Inspired by 1
← Is metaclass for 1
← Partially coincident with 1
← Template has topic 1
← Used by 1
← Wikimedia portal's main topic 1
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Summary
science fiction is a speculative fiction genre[1]. It is a type of speculative fiction[2].
Why It Matters
science fiction has been cited as an influence by Afrofuturism[14], an it genre[15]; The Protomen[16], a musical group[17], founded in 2003[18]; Alfons Figueras[19], a comics artist[20], 1922–2009[21], of Spain[22], awarded the Award Gato Perich[23]; and Ángel Arango[24], a writer[25], 1926–2013[26], of Cuba[27], specialised in belletristic literature[28].
FAQs
Who did science fiction influence?
science fiction has been cited as an influence by Afrofuturism[14], The Protomen[16], Alfons Figueras[19], and Ángel Arango[24].