What counts as Science Fiction?

[Insel]

Apart from all the classic out of atmosphere travels of course. I was looking to do a story or something. I'm just curious as to what on. Halo fan fiction comes to mind, but does anyone have any requests?

[SandmanNinja]

I'd say a ringworld-like construct such as Halo would count as SF.
Fan SF, since it's an established setting, but SF just the same.

[TheGreatRaja]

Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology.

[BDelacroix]

The answer to this depends on the reader. Orson Scott Card has a section of chapter one of his book on writing science fiction and fantasy about this very subject.

[TheGreatRaja]

there is a lot more to Sci Fi than star ships flying around blowing the crap out of each other

[Adamastor]

jules verne wrote about submarines before they existed, so that would count as sci-fi. as is any movie based on robots/true ai, or shoes with flamethrowers. technically you could take almost any fantasy story and replace all references to magic and spells with technology and device, or replace only half the references and have the whole flying ships and giant robots in a medieval setting you get in escaflowne..

if it were me writing a story i would do the folowing: in a short frase undeline the most fantastic or unlikely part of the world your creating (like "tiny cyborg werewolf ninja"), and then find some reasonable-ish explanation for it to exist ("japanese make supersoldier combining training tech and magic thingie"), then finally try to build up the rest of the world around the explanation until the original fantastic idea is fully in context and sounds perfectly normal. from there the plot writes itself
just do me one favor, avoid the third act reversal... its been done to death in every medium..