P K Dick stated that science fiction is about 'a society that does not in fact exist, but is predicted on our known society - that is our known society acts as a jumping-off point for it ... this is the essence of science fiction, the conceptuial dislocation within the society so that as a result a new society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition'. (Dick 1981 'My Definition of Science Fiction')
Broderick also gives us a definition of Science Fiction, he concludes that 'Science Fiction is that species of storytelling native to a culture undergoing the epistemic changes implicated in the riseand supercession of technological modes of production, distribution, consumption and disposal. It is marked by (i) metaphoric stategies and metonymic tactics, (ii) the forgrounding of icons and interpretative schemata from a collectively generic 'mega-text' and the concomitant de-emphasis of 'fine-writing' and characterisation, and (iii) certain priorities more often found in scientific and postmodern texts than in literary models: specifically to the object in preference to the subject.' (Broderick (1995) in Roberts, A. (2006), Science Fiction, London: Routledge)
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