"The Meaning of Science Fiction"

The term "science fiction" prose consists of three words, namely "prose", "fiction" and "science." Science fiction itself often referred to as a science fiction or in English known as science fiction (often abbreviated as Sc-Fi).

In language "prose" is defined as a free bouquet. While the "fiction" is defined as regular fiction. Aminuddin (2002: 66) defines prose fiction as a narrative or story-my head is carried by certain actors with characterization, background as well as a series of stages and certain story which is based on the results of the author's imagination so as to establish a story. Examples of prose fiction is the short story, novel, fairy tales, and other types of prose fiction that nature is.

Science fiction has a plot narrative forms, theme, and background imaginatively presented, based on speculative scientific knowledge and theory plausible. Examples such as the story of space travel, adventures on the sea floor, the emergence of a strange creature, or an adventure on another planet.

Not much different with it, Korrie Layun Rampan (1999: 218) defines science fiction as a literary genre based on actual scientific-and-date, describing the adventure through the sky, or stories that illustrate the state of the world futurologists that in the future.

Sometimes people equate between science fiction and fantasy fiction. Though both are clearly different. Science fiction written by a scientific basis. While the stories are classified as ordinary form of fantasy fiction stories that have no scientific basis, it is pure fantasy author.

Typically, fantasy fiction tells the story of the unknown barantah, figures to have supernatural powers, monsters, strange creatures, and others that are not accompanied and supported by arguments of science basics.

Different works of fiction and non-fiction. The difference, according to Harry Guntur Tarin (1991: 22) lies in the goal. The intent and purpose of narrative non-fiction, history, biography, and so forth is to re-create everything that has happened actually. In other words we can say that the non-fiction narrative begins by saying, "because all these facts then this is what should happen." While the fictional narrative begins by saying, "if all this is the fact that this is what will happen".