Science Fiction Novels , popularly called Sci-Fi novels comprise events based on science and technology, imagined to occur in the future. Hence Science Fiction genre is almost synonymous to the broad category of speculative fiction dealing with imagination of unachievable objects resulting in the creation of horror and fantasy.
Some of the authors of science fiction novels are Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl, Ursula K. Le Guin, Walter M. Miller, C. J. Cherryh, Hal Clement, Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, Robert Heinlein and H. G. Wells,
Themes of Science Fiction Books
- Presence of aliens, outer space and superhumans powers
- Set in the background of an alternative time line or history
- Exploring the different political and social systems between the present and the past by some scientific means
- Consequences of new scientific discoveries like cloning, mutation, genetic engineering, space travel, robots, cyborgs, telepathy and psionics
Famous Science Fiction Books
- Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Startide Rising by David Brin
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Science fiction novels are a kind of fantasy novels. Though some argue that they belong to different genres, but imagination plays an important part in both of them.
Science fiction novels have led to the formation of some more sub-genres like hard science fiction, soft science fiction, military science fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fictions.
