Of course it can. Why couldn't it?
It is the author's choice what point of view they will use to tell their story. Be it Science Fiction or any other genre makes no difference.
An example of science fiction written in the first person is Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
Because his genre is science fiction, and he needs to incorperate science and technology in his stories to stay true to that genre.
David G. Hartwell has written: 'Year's Best SF 15' -- subject(s): Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, OverDrive 'The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction' 'Bodies of the Dead' 'Year's Best SF 5' -- subject(s): OverDrive, Fiction, Science Fiction, American Science fiction 'Year's best SF 15' -- subject(s): American Science fiction, English Science fiction, English Short stories, American Short stories 'Visions of Wonder' 'The Science Fiction Century' 'The Screaming Skull' 'Year's Best SF 3' -- subject(s): OverDrive, Fiction, Science Fiction 'Christmas Stars' 'Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment' '20th Century Science Fiction-' 'Year's best SF 7' -- subject(s): American Science fiction 'The Dark Descent' 'Visions of Fear (Foundations of Fear, No 3)'
Try Ray Bradbury's stories. They may be a bit outdated in the sense that they are not what today's readers might think is science fiction like in today's movies. Harlan Ellison is also a wonderful science fiction short story writer. Otherwise try using your library's computer catalog using keywords like 'science fiction anthologies' or 'outer space short stories.'
Great Science Fiction Stories About the Moon was created in 1967.
Great Science Fiction Stories About Mars was created in 1966.
Damon Knight has written: 'Why do birds' -- subject(s): Fiction, End of the world, Twenty-first century, Science fiction 'A century of great short science fiction novels' -- subject(s): Science fiction 'The best of Damon Knight' 'In deep' -- subject(s): Short stories, English, English Short stories 'Creating short fiction' -- subject(s): Authorship, Short story, Fiction 'Turning on' 'Perchance to dream' -- subject(s): Science fiction, Dreams, Fiction 'Damon Knight's Orbit 12' -- subject(s): American Science fiction 'Late Knight edition' -- subject(s): American Science fiction, Science fiction, Science fiction, American 'Charles Fort' 'The Futurians' -- subject(s): American Novelists, American Science fiction, Biography, Book editors, Editors, Futurian Society of New York, History and criticism, Novelists, American, Science fiction, American 'The Worshippers' -- subject(s): Fiction, Science Fiction, OverDrive 'Orbit 19' 'Why dobirds' -- subject(s): Fiction, Twenty-first century, End of the world 'Beyond the barrier' -- subject(s): Fiction in English 'Toward infinity' -- subject(s): Science fiction 'A century of science fiction.' -- subject(s): Science Fiction, Science Fiction Anthology, Anthology, Lending library, Science fiction 'Cities of wonder' -- subject(s): Science fiction 'Creating short fiction' -- subject(s): Authorship, Fiction, Short story 'Damon Knight's Orbit 5' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Science fiction 'Turning on' -- subject(s): American Science fiction, Science fiction, American 'Worlds to come' -- subject(s): Science fiction, Short stories 'One hundred years of science fiction' -- subject(s): Science fiction 'Orbit' 'Far out' -- subject(s): American Science fiction, Lending library, Science fiction, American 'A pocketful of stars' -- subject(s): American Science fiction, Science fiction, American 'Best Damon Knight' 'Damon Knight's orbit' 'Beyond tomorrow' -- subject(s): Science fiction 'The dark side' -- subject(s): Horror tales 'A century of great short science fiction novels' -- subject(s): Science fiction
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories was created in 2003.
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories has 586 pages.
Great Science Fiction Stories About the Moon has 221 pages.
Great Science Fiction Stories About Mars has 187 pages.
I, Robot was written by Isaac Asimov
S for Space is a collection of science fiction short stories about space travel, time machines and aliens. It was written in 1956.