Conventions (200 words)
Explain in detail the conventions of the science fiction genre. The conventions should also include those frequently borrowed from other genres ie the heroic journey, horror, etc.
Science fiction conventions include the constant use of creating a world that is more futuristic or different from our current world. Science fiction like fantasy fiction creates a new world out of imagination but in science fiction this new world often has futuristic technology. The setting for the novels that are under the genre of science fiction often have common characteristics of having a setting in the future or in alternate timeline with aliens on other worlds or in space. Stories often involve technology of new and existing scientific principles e.g. time travel, nanotechnology, F-T-L travel etc. Common science fiction conventions are the use of using theorised technology in the plot, the discovery of aliens or new planets or Earth being in a change of political or social systems e.g. a disaster on a global scale. Science fiction has been divided into a number of sub-genres but most of the novels written in any of these sub-genres contains at least one of these common science fiction conventions.
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