Someone said that by these times, "literature" is on detective stories, and science fiction..
Personally I read only science fiction, in all of its sub-generes always it talks about civics, and society.
I'd like this quotes from the Wiki:
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Orson Scott Card, best known for his 1985 science fiction novel Ender's Game, has postulated that in science fiction the message and intellectual significance of the work are contained within the story itself and, therefore, does not require accepted literary devices and techniques he instead characterized as gimmicks or literary games.
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Philip K. Dick. 1981. [...]"I will define science fiction, first, by saying what SF is not. It cannot be defined as “a story (or novel or play) set in the future,”...It is our world dislocated by some kind of mental effort on the part of the author, our world transformed into that which it is not or not yet.]This world must differ from the given in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise to events that could not occur in our society—or in any known society present or past. There must be a coherent idea involved in this dislocation; that is, the dislocation must be a conceptual one, not merely a trivial or bizarre one—this is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society so that as a result a new society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition. He knows that it is not his actual world that he is reading about."
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So I'll click "pure fiction" "_".