Results of a research ( in the Iranian Center of Science Fiction Studies) provided a response to an important fundamental question : What is a suitable scientific framework for Science Fiction studies ?
In brief , systematic studies of Science Fiction is multifariouses and necessitates a comprehensive discipline . Conceptual model of Scifictology shows that it is an appropriate framework for consolidated comprehensive inter-disciplinary studies of various aspects of Science Fiction by different approaches .
In this basis the Scifictology included several sub-disciplines such as :
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