Science fiction and mainstream literature
Science fiction can overlap with more mainstream fiction.
If the society, the person, the technology, and the scientific knowledge base in the story are all drawn from observed reality, without much detail about the scientific aspects, the story may be classed as mainstream, contemporary fiction rather than as science fiction, like Marooned by Martin Caidin, or virtually all the novels by Tom Clancy. If the characters thoughts and feelings about the laws of the universe, time, reality, and human invention are unusual and tend toward existential re-interpretation of lifes meaning in relation to the technological world, then it may be classed a modernist work of literature that overlaps with the themes of science fiction. Examples include Thomas Pynchons Gravitys Rainbow, William Burroughss Nova Express, Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go, and much of the work of Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, and Stanis?aw Lem.
. Purpose of science fiction
Science fiction has often been concerned with the great hopes people place in science but also with their fears concerning the negative side of technological development; the latter is expressed in the classic theme of the hubristic scientist who is destroyed by his own creation.
Much science fiction attempts to generate a sense of wonder, or awe, from the setting, circumstances, or ideas presented. Paradigm shifts may be used to induce a sense of shock, or a change in the frame of reference for the reader.
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