Science fiction studies

This article is about the field of science fiction studies. For the journal of the same title, please see Science Fiction Studies. Science fiction studies is the common name for the academic discipline that studies and researches the history, culture, and works of science fiction and, more broadly, speculative fiction. The modern field of science fiction studies is closely related to popular culture studies, a subdiscipline of cultural studies, a... more

This article is about the field of science fiction studies. For the journal of the same title, please see Science Fiction Studies. Science fiction studies is the common name for the academic discipline that studies and researches the history, culture, and works of science fiction and, more broadly, speculative fiction. The modern field of science fiction studies is closely related to popular culture studies, a subdiscipline of cultural studies, and film and literature studies. Because of the ties with futurism and utopian works, there is often overlap with these fields as well. The field also has spawned subfields, such as feminist science fiction studies. However, the field's roots go back much further, to the earliest commentators who studied representations of the sciences in the arts and literature, and explorations of utopian and social reform impulses in fantastic and visionary works of art and literature. Modern science fiction criticism may have started with Dorothy... less