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- Science fiction exists to provide what Moskowitz and others call ‘the sense of wonder’: in more precise terms, some widening of the mind’s horizons, in no matter what direction—the landscape of another planet, or a corpuscle’s-eye view of an artery, or what it feels like to be in rapport with a cat…any new sensory experience, impossible to the reader in his own person, is grist for the mill and what the activity of science-fiction writing is all about.
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The "sense of wonder" comes not from brilliant writing nor even from brilliant conceptualizing; it comes from a sudden opening of a closed door in the reader's mind. (This phenomenon may explain why generations of readers can still quote these final lines verbatim.)
In Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction the term sense of wonder is defined as follows: SENSE OF WONDER n. a feeling of awakening or awe triggered by an expansion of one's awareness of what is possible or by confrontation with the vastness of space and time, as brought on by reading science fiction. [3]: 179.
Science fiction exists to provide what Moskowitz and others call ‘the sense of wonder’: in more precise terms, some widening of the mind’s horizons, in no matter what direction—the landscape of another planet, or a corpuscle’s-eye view of an artery, or what it feels like to be in rapport with a cat…any new sensory experience ...
Science Fiction concerns only those specific wonders that are not eternal and not know to all men, the specific mysteries of the universe revealed by the scientific revolution and the Christian victory over superstition. And that is what a sense of wonder is.
The term "science fiction" came into general use in the 1930s, an early appearance being in Hugo Gernsback 's editorial to #1 of Wonder Stories (June 1929). Rather later in the UK, the term was used in Scoops (Summer 1934 and later) to describe individual stories, and Walter Gillings used the term on the cover of the first issue of Tales of ...
One of the hallmarks of SF is the ability to induce a Sense Of Wonder in the reader; indeed, Hugo Gernsback coined the phrase to define SF. "The Sense Of Wonder comes not from brilliant writing, nor even from brilliant conceptualising; it comes from a sudden opening of a closed door in the reader's mind.
Science Fiction as Popular Culture: A Sense of Wonder. According to SF critics Alexei and Cory Panshen, Science Fiction fulfills a human need to transcend our normal consciousness and to enter, via the imagination, worlds of marvel, wonder, astonishment and amazement.
