The many definitions of Science Fiction allow for broad inclusions however any 'good' science fiction would include interpolations and extrapolations on reality.
The book Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry is an interesting book because it isn't like other science fiction books. This book would be considered a science fiction novel because it has some unrealistic characters and events
It is not a Gothic novel, though it has some Gothic or (woodsy horror) elements the plot is taken apart by the Detective Sherlock Holmes as a matter of deductive logic, not some sort of supernatural action, like werewolves. The story is a detective or mystery/crime novel and not in any sense of the word a science-fiction novel I do not know why or how it got on the(Science Fiction) category.
This sounds a bit like 'Inverted World' by Christopher Priest.
Science Fiction is like Star Wars or Star Trek. Non fiction is where it IS real and it really happened such as in a biography.
"Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson features the Metaverse, a virtual reality world accessed by citizens through a "joystick" like device. This science fiction novel explores themes of technology, capitalism, and linguistics in a dystopian future setting.
The magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction is about all different aspects of Fantasy or Science Fiction. It includes articles written about things like Star Trek.
Most would refer to it as a historical novel. It certainly would fit the genre of novel. It might also be called something like an Elizabethan or Victorian novel, depending on the specific time frames.
That means "You like science fiction movies." Or as a question: "Do you like science fiction movies?"
It is sort of like science, only it's science fiction.
Edwin Corley wrote this controversial science fiction novel. the novel (explains) the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as combinaitons of normal Magnesium flare incendiary bombs- (plausible) coupled with earthquakes and natural radioactivity. there are too many unanswered questions like radiation burns over forty ( at the time of the novel more or less) after the fact, and inborn cancers and so on- that could not have been caused by a Magnesium flare plus Earthquake shock! a rather naive novel but a most unusual conception.
Black holes in science fiction movies are giant, black holes that rotate like a circular saws inwards.
We have fictional science that exists right now, like Creationism. It is possible to live in a world in which fictional science exists, but it will not be accurate.