science fiction novel presents a story based in the context of the future and/or the development of science and technology and its effects on the society in the story. ... Dystopian fiction, however, is more about the present.
"The future in science fiction is usually presented in a dystopian setting. A dystopia is an imaginary world deliberately conceived as being worse than our own; a utopian one conceived as better. But many science fiction worlds are neither better nor worse – merely different."
