science fiction, n.Definitions

Science fiction is negative.

Science fiction is the mythology of modern technology. Its myth is tragic.

Science fiction is Bacon's New Atlantis.

Science fiction's function is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Science fiction may conceivably be a primitive beginning of a new form of heroic epic.

Science fiction is a tragic myth indeed if it is the mythology of modern technology.

Science fiction is not about science. it is about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Science fiction is almost entirely based on the theme of the dream of flight, so that there is, without question, a link to the desiring self.