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Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology or space opera and more with speculation about society. In other words, it "absorbs and discusses anthropology" and speculates about human behavior and interactions.
This is a list of social science fiction writers with their best-known works. Iain M. Banks - The Culture series; Malorie Blackman - The Noughts & Crosses series; Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower; Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451; Renee Gladman – The Ravicka series; Robert A. Heinlein; Aldous Huxley - Brave New World; James Howard ...
Pages in category "Social science fiction" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Science fiction can act as a vehicle to analyze and recognize a society's past, present, and potential future social relationships with the other. Science fiction offers a medium and representation of alterity and differences in social identity. [192] Brian Aldiss described science fiction as "cultural wallpaper". [193]
300 Social sciences, sociology, and anthropology. 300 Social sciences; 301 Sociology and anthropology; 302 Social interaction; 303 Social processes; 304 Factors affecting social behavior; 305 Groups of people; 306 Culture and institutions; 307 Communities; 308 No longer used — formerly "Polygraphy" 309 No longer used — formerly "History of ...
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ ˈ k r oʊ b ər l ə ˈ ɡ w ɪ n / KROH-bər lə GWIN; [1] née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author.She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series.
Climate change—science fiction dealing with effects of anthropogenic climate change and global warming at the end of the Holocene era; Megacity; Pastoral science fiction—science fiction set in rural, bucolic, or agrarian worlds, either on Earth or on Earth-like planets, in which advanced technologies are downplayed. Seasteading and ocean ...
Utopian and dystopian fiction are subgenres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author's ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers. Dystopian fiction offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely ...