ABSTRACT
Although SF has been characterized by Clute and Nichols (1993) as a genre mainly determined by publishers, this chapter deals with SF as a paraliterature (see below) that embodies an SF methodology which James (1994) argues mainstream authors often fail to handle adequately. This notion of an SF methodology is founded in the very beginnings of science fiction and will be central to any possible articulation of SF and the field of organization. In support of such projects, this chapter aims to examine the reciprocal conceptualizations that have been produced by SF and the social sciences and in particular organization and management theory. One of the editors of this volume said that this was in danger of becoming a ‘fan’s paper’; well it is and I am. I am a fan of SF and of organization theory and I think both can enrich and illuminate the world. Our job here is to explore the limits of how they might do this together.
