Science fiction studies

Conferences are an important way for scholars to discuss ideas. In this photo, panelists discuss science fiction at the SOAS Africa Conference in 2017, which had the tagline "New visions, new images, new stories."

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.

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