Mar 312010
I just finished reading Robert Heinleins book, have space suit will travel, and i was wondering what are some examples of how it is classified science fiction. i know there are aliens but do i have a right to say it is one of the examples to being fiction. what are some specific points in the book about the planets, moon to say that its fiction.
Look at Melville in Moby Dick. I have yet to finish it, but have heard so much about a big portion of the book is all about whaling, more informative than fiction there as well. However, even though there is a bit of nonfiction within, the book as a whole is a fabricated tale. Just as the book you mentioned, I am sure. If it were catagorized as nonfiction, that would mean the other things mentioned within are true as well. There are lots of true things written throughout many fiction books, that doesn’t mean the entire thing is.
Robert Heinlein’s juveniles are very much science fiction. They describe science and the science is essential to the fictional story.
In that book, he describes how a space suit works, what the moon’s surface is like, and what Pluto’s surface is like.