Amazing Stories: August 1928 Cover. Art of Frank R. Paul. ►
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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realistic fiction, as I see it, deals with events that take place in social contexts are not significantly different from those that now exist or are supposed to be existed at some time in the past. There is no reason to believe that the facts realistic fiction could not have possibly happen as she has described.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: Gulliver discovers Laputa, the city of the flying islands, 1838. ►
home The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling. ►
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Illustration of a tripod by Henrique Alvim Correa for the 1906 French edition of HG Wells classic The War of the Worlds . ►
Lucifer, the main protagonist of Paradise Lost, John Milton, drawn by Gustave Doré. ►
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien: Representation of a knight of Rohan. ►
The interior of Rama is essentially a large cylindrical landscape. Rendezvous with Rama is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. ►
Science fiction and fantasy literature (which could be combined under the name "surrealist fiction") address instead of facts that are developed in contexts Social that do not exist today or have existed in the past. This is the case of social satire Gulliver Travel of the talking animals in the jungle book or Dolittle The Voyages of Doctor of supernatural influences of or Paradise Lost The Lord of the Rings , and scientific extrapolation The War of the Worlds or Rendezvous with Rama.
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Martians vs Thunder Child, by Alvim Correa.
Henrique Alvim Corrêa Illustration for Belgian edition 1906. A Martian war machine facing the ship Thunder-Child.
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To distinguish between the two main varieties of surrealist fiction, I would say that in the case of science fiction, the surreal background of history could be derived from our own environment through appropriate changes in the level of science and technology.
aircraft taking off from a platform in the stratosphere. Illustration 1953 for a newspaper conducted by Helmuth Ellgaard. ►
The change could represent an advance in the development of colonies on Mars, or in the interpretation of signals from alien life forms.
thermonuclear bomb explosion.
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could represent a setback, such as a description of the destruction of our civilization by a nuclear or ecological catastrophe.
Amazing Stories, 1947. ►
Wonder Stories, 1929.
Wonder Stories was an early science fiction magazines published in several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback.
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(With a generous estimate of the scientific advances we can achieve, it would be possible to include certain items less plausible as time travel, the higher speeds to light, etc..)
The One Ring, the destruction of which revolves around the plot of The Lord of the Rings . ►
Fantastic literature, however, describes surreal environments which can not assume that may result from our through some change in the level of science or technology. (Or if they can be derived by a sufficient dose of ingenuity, the author does not bother to do so, as when Tolkien's Middle-earth refuses to locate somewhere in human history.)
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