Sci-fi Genre

What is an example of genre?

• comedy

• books

• sci-fi

• movies

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Most chapter books are part of a large genre called _________?

• reality

• comedy

• fiction

• sci-fi

Spaceships, robots, aliens and time-travel are all part of ______________.

• horror

• comedy

• sci-fi

• drama

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What makes sci-fi different from other kinds of fiction?

• Sci-fi always has time-travelling aliens, spaceships and talking robots.

• Other genres are based on true events that happened in the past.

• Sci-fi contains unreal things that could be real in our world in the future.

Sci-fi can contain technologies or discoveries that could possibly happen in our world.

• True

• False

Science fiction often ...

• contains elements of magic, fantasy and unreal creatures.

• explores what goes wrong with tools and advancements.

• falls into the non-fiction category.

Most science fiction takes place in ....

• the real world

• a world with similar rules to ours

• a fantasy world

• the past

In sci-fi, cool stuff happens because of magic.

• True

• False

Science fiction is ONLY set in the future.

• True

• False

Sci-fi helps us think about ...

• how to make create technologies.

• how our choices affect the future.

• how to travel to space.