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Added "Other Subgenres" section; it's incomplete, but Cyberpunk is the only one I can describe adequately.
== Faith-based science fiction? ==
== Faith-based science fiction? ==
At first glance, such a concept might seem oxymoronic. However, a writer of science fiction might choose to limit his speculations strictly to those for which a [[Bible|Scriptural]] warrant exists, and to create a character or characters whose abiding faith informs their decisions and actions. A writer might also project his characters into a world that the [[Bible]] or [[creation science]] might predict, and evolutionary [[science]] might declare impossible. Plot-themes of recent faith-based science-fiction works have involved time travel, either real or virtual, to past human environments, for example to [[Jerusalem]] before its destruction by a [[Rome|Roman]] general or even to the civilization that might have existed shortly before the [[Great Flood]]. [[Eschatology]] is possibly the most frequent theme in Christian science fiction today.
At first glance, such a concept might seem oxymoronic. However, a writer of science fiction might choose to limit his speculations strictly to those for which a [[Bible|Scriptural]] warrant exists, and to create a character or characters whose abiding faith informs their decisions and actions. A writer might also project his characters into a world that the [[Bible]] or [[creation science]] might predict, and evolutionary [[science]] might declare impossible. Plot-themes of recent faith-based science-fiction works have involved time travel, either real or virtual, to past human environments, for example to [[Jerusalem]] before its destruction by a [[Rome|Roman]] general or even to the civilization that might have existed shortly before the [[Great Flood]]. [[Eschatology]] is possibly the most frequent theme in Christian science fiction today.
==Other Subgenres==
'''Cyberpunk''' stories, as pioneered by [[William Gibson]], often take place in a [[dystopian|dystopia]] near-future setting, usually populated mostly by criminals of one sort or another. These stories usually revolve around a [[hacker]] or similar [[anti-hero]], often working for only their own good.
== Related references ==
== Related references ==