From the earliest writers, Verne, A.C. Doyle, etc. sf was all about futurism. They attempted to predict what the future would be like. Primarily. Some stories were set in the present. The combination became the genre as we know it today. Keep in mind a fair amount of scifi became scifact.

Bradbury was more of a Futurist imho. He truly saw what things would be like and put them into realworld context and perspective. Chuck Guzis wrote: > Did Bradbury ever refer to himself as a "science fiction writer"? Although he wrote stories set in futuristic (or alternate reality) places, I was under the impression that such stuff was mostly the backdrop for his storytelling. > One of his short stories that's a favorite of mine isn't SF (and perhaps not fiction at all) --"The First Night of Lent". > > --Chuck > > > >