Science fiction reading guide
Space travel, inter-species politics, adventure and more - explore possible futures and alien worlds.
Science fiction is a genre that mixes the purely imaginative with serious science content. Many science fiction novels are now considered classics, not just of the genre itself but of literature generally.
From time travel to man-made machinery taking on an intelligence of its own, to social commentary and explorations on the nature of humanity, science fiction presents the reader with a version of the universe as it could be.
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