Gothic science fiction

Gothic science fiction

Gothic science fiction is a subgenre of science fictionFact|date=August 2008 that, as the name suggests, also involves gothic conventions.

Some of the more obvious examples of the subgenre feature vampiresFact|date=August 2008 explained in a science fiction context, commonly that vampires are aliens or those infected by a disease as in (Richard Matheson's novel "I Am Legend"), or products of parallel evolution (George R. R. Martin's novel "Fevre Dream"). Some feature entire planets of vampires, or vampire-like creatures (such as the comic book "Vampirella").

In his history of science fiction, "Billion Year Spree", Brian Aldiss contends that science fiction itself is an outgrowth of gothic fiction-- pointing to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein as an example." [S] cience fiction is the search for a definition of man and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science) and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post-Gothic mode." [Originally published in "Billion Year Spree" (1973);] The blend can also be detected quite explicitly in Jules Verne's novel "Le Château des Carpathes".

Other examples of the subgenre feature other traditionally gothic tropes in new settings, such as:
* Damsels in distress in faraway future
* Gothic planetary romance
* Gothic futuristic romance

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