Some Characteristics of 1960s Sci Fi Fiction
- Dissatisfaction with the contemporary social and political situation
- Foregrounding stories of marginalized others
- "Social dreaming": the desire to project a freer, more egalitarian world
- A sense of nostalgia for a world only glimpsed or imagined previously
- Current scientific and technological knowledge is extended to pose questions about our human fate
- Encounters with new, unknown worlds and new life forms
- Questions the boundaries of the human, what constitutes "human"