Defining Science Fiction
George Hay ("futurologist") | ||
Brian Aldiss (science fiction writer) | ||
H. G. Wells (polymath) | ||
Eric Rabkin (tri-partite definition) | ||
Frederic Brown (science fiction writer) | ||
Eric Rabkin (theoretical definition) | ||
Frederic Brown (a paradigmatic definition): "After the last atomic war, Earth was dead; nothing grew, nothing lived. The last man sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...." |