Science and innovation of the republic of uzbekistan samarkand state institute of foreign languages

THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION,
SCIENCE AND INNOVATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
SAMARKAND STATE INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES




COURSE WORK
Theme: SCIENCE FICTION AND ITS ORIGINS


Scientific supervisor: Erdanova Z.A.
Done by: Abduhakimova Z. X.
Samarkand – 2023
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………3
CHAPTER I. BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT SCIENCE FICTION AND ITS BACKGROUND……………………………………………………………………...5
1.1. History of science fiction………………………………………………………….5
1.2. The study of science fiction………………………………………………………17
CHAPTER II. ORIGIN OF SCIENCE FICTION………………………………...23
2.1. A timeline to science fiction literature……………………………………………23
2.2. Evaluation of the genre of science fiction………………………………………...28
CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………………...33
REFERENCES……………………………………………………………………...35


INTRODUCTION
Science fiction, abbreviation SF or sci-fi, a shape of fiction that offers essentially with the have an impact on of genuine or imagined technology upon society or individuals. The time period technological know-how fiction turned into as soon as popularized, if now no longer invented, withinside the 1920s with the resource of one of the style’s main advocates, the American writer Hugo Gernsback. The Hugo Awards, given yearly considering the fact that 1953 thru the World Science Fiction Society, are named after him. These fulfillment awards are given to the top SF writers, editors, illustrators, films, and fanzines.
Science fiction is a modern style. Though writers in antiquity sometimes treated concern topics not unusualplace to current technology fiction, their memories made no try at clinical and technological plausibility, the function that distinguishes technology fiction from previously speculative writings and extraordinary presentday speculative genres consisting of myth and horror. The style officially emerged withinside the West, the area the social modifications wrought with the resource of the Industrial Revolution first led writers and intellectuals to extrapolate the destiny have an effect on of technology.
By the organising of the twentieth century, an array of popular technology fiction “sets” had evolved round wonderful themes, amongst them place travel, robots, alien beings, and time tour (see below Major technological know-how fiction themes). The not unusualplace “theatrics” of technology fiction consist of prophetic warnings, utopian aspirations, difficult situations for absolutely imaginary worlds, massive disasters, uncommon voyages, and political agitation of many extremist flavours, offered withinside the form of sermons, meditations, satires, allegories, and parodies—showing each feasible mind-set in the direction of the way of techno-social change, from cynical melancholy to cosmic bliss.
Science fiction writers frequently are searching out new clinical and technical trends so as to prognosticate freely the techno-social modifications with a purpose to surprise the readers’ enjoy of cultural propriety and growth their consciousness. This technique was once vital to the paintings of H.G. Wells, a founding father of the fashion and in all likelihood its satisfactory writer. Wells turned into an ardent pupil of the 19th-century British scientist T.H. Huxley, whose vociferous championing of Charles Darwin’s precept of evolution earned him the epithet “Darwin’s Bulldog.” Wells’s literary career gives good enough proof of technology fiction’s latent radicalism, its affinity for competitive satire and utopian political agendas, as well as its dire predictions of technological destruction.