Science-fiction is not a genre. It is a setting, in time, place and fact. If you don't believe me then take any sci-fi book (for those who read) movie or TV show and change the time place or facts of reality to something else and does it not become a drama, mystery, thriller, comedy, etc?
There may be one kind of writing that would push this definition. That would be the stuff that is about the morals or ideals or implications of certain technology. But even that is more or less about humanity and its quest to understand its morals and ethics. I a thinking mostly of things like Asimov-ian writings that delve into the implications of AI and the concepts of three laws that guide robots and AI. But that is for another time.
What this is for is the more basic sci-fi. Nearly every star trek could happen on a boat in the ocean in our "discovery of new worlds" phase of global exploration. I can't think of any show or movie that does not have basic story play out in a different time or place and still be essentially the same. For that matter almost any story could be placed into a "sci-fi" context and end up with a different twist but the same sort of story. Shakespeare can be done in a future time. Uncle Tom's Cabin could be about robots in the near future. Atlas shrugged...well basically is placed a sci-fi context. I think the reason the new movie is not coming to production is a lack of vision for how to do it in the near future contextually.
What do you think? Is there something I am missing? Is sci-fi more than context?
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