*NB: I see the source for "futuristic." In the context, I should have said "speculative."

*Read (your own), before you rant.

Kalon:  you quote one definition of "Science fiction" with approval and then blithely assure us that "the War of the Worlds" is "science fiction", too, even though it fails to satisfy the definition you have just so airily endorsed.   Nothing in "The War of the Worlds" has anything to do with science, beyond the final scene, which I shan't reveal, because there may be people viewing this forum who don't know the ending, just as i am pretty confident that a certain individual never got past page four of "Gulliver's Travels".