Tanner defines science fiction as a type of movie,book or other that is fiction with ideas that are not impossible to recreate in real life. science fiction is important to tanner because he spends a ton of his free time watching science fiction movies and reading science fiction books. in science fiction class tanner hopes to learn more about the different types of science fiction. when tanner was younger he read all the star wars books and watched the movies but now he likes to watch doctor who. some questions some questions Tanner has are what is science fiction poetry like and what inspires someone to write science fiction another question he has is why do people write science he also what makes science fiction different from fiction his last question is who are famous science fiction writers.