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There is not one film or text responsible for this, but many as there are many perspectives on what sci-fi is described as. The genre does not have one definition, but rather many, varying from the number of people asked. According to the writer, Hugo Gernsback, "Science-fiction ... can be defined as: imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future" (Gernsback). . Hugo Gernsback’s definition of science fiction is strongest because it incorperates aspects of imagination, discusses technology that currently exists, and explores phenomena that may exist in the future as seen in Ray Bradbury's Farenheit
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Looking at Ludwig Wittgenstein's definition of science fiction, he debates that "these phenomena have no one thing in common which makes us use the same word for all—but ... they are related to one another in many different ways.... We see a complicated network of similarities overlapping and criss-crossing: sometimes overall similarities, sometimes similarities of detail" (qtd. In Rieder). While adding to this statement, a direct correlation can be formed between the science fiction text that will be made in the future will develop the definition of sci-fi, for what science fiction is today will differ from what it will be defined as in the future, just as the model for past science fiction has changed the present’s. This is due to the fact that as technological advances increase, the fictionary gap decreases and new evolved ideologies must be produced. From the new ideas that are coming forward in the genre as a whole, the genre transforms because new ideas must be …show more content…
Rather than looking at defining science fiction as singular definition, one must view its terms more broad. When Hugo Gernsback refers to its definition as best defined as “an imaginative exploration of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future” (Gernsback), he executes the extent of the idea best . This definition has shown that there is a possibility for anything in this genre, including technology that may exist, now or may likely exist in the future. This definition describes best the context of both Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 51 and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep through the outline of this discussion. The defining issue for sci-fi is recognizing the sum of its parts and the best organization of this, is to broaden its aspects in order to provide vast interpretation. Definitions for science fiction will continue to evolve as more people become writers and new text is
Looking at Ludwig Wittgenstein's definition of science fiction, he debates that "these phenomena have no one thing in common which makes us use the same word for all—but ... they are related to one another in many different ways.... We see a complicated network of similarities overlapping and criss-crossing: sometimes overall similarities, sometimes similarities of detail" (qtd. In Rieder). While adding to this statement, a direct correlation can be formed between the science fiction text that will be made in the future will develop the definition of sci-fi, for what science fiction is today will differ from what it will be defined as in the future, just as the model for past science fiction has changed the present’s. This is due to the fact that as technological advances increase, the fictionary gap decreases and new evolved ideologies must be produced. From the new ideas that are coming forward in the genre as a whole, the genre transforms because new ideas must be …show more content…
Rather than looking at defining science fiction as singular definition, one must view its terms more broad. When Hugo Gernsback refers to its definition as best defined as “an imaginative exploration of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future” (Gernsback), he executes the extent of the idea best . This definition has shown that there is a possibility for anything in this genre, including technology that may exist, now or may likely exist in the future. This definition describes best the context of both Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 51 and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep through the outline of this discussion. The defining issue for sci-fi is recognizing the sum of its parts and the best organization of this, is to broaden its aspects in order to provide vast interpretation. Definitions for science fiction will continue to evolve as more people become writers and new text is