Abstract:

After Hugo Gernsback founded the journal Scientifiction (1924), the concept of Science-Fiction became a type of literature. Although different suggestions have been put forward to name the science-fiction genre, Orhan Duru's naming of science-fiction has been permanent. The genre of science fiction can be defined as the incorporation of the imagination, which is fed with science and technology and can expand, into the field of literature by blending it with technology and science. Orhan Duru defined the genre of science fiction as “a genre of literature that deals with what is possible for science fiction to be realized only in the proportions that science allows”. Science fiction; The Global Economic Depression emerged by taking advantage of technological and scientific developments in the pessimistic and chaotic table that spread after the First World War and the Second World War. In Turkish literature, the genre of science fiction started to show itself after the 1990s. It has been argued that the history of the science-fiction genre, which became official with the naming of Orhan Duru, in Turkish literature goes back to the Ottoman Empire. In the light of scientific and technological developments affecting the whole world, the genre of science fiction entered the field of literature. Different genres, languages, time periods and places have been included in the works within the possibilities of technology and science. In the light of scientific enlightenment, the future consequences of technology are discussed with certain themes and possible future scenarios are explained with a pessimistic or optimistic perspective. In this study, the historical process, narrative techniques, fictional elements and the most processed themes since the emergence of science-fiction works in Turkish literature published between 1996-2019 are emphasized.

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