I was abducted by aliens, but now I'm back.
My experience with sci-fi has been fairly limited (apart from the abduction, which is technically science fact, but I'm not here to quibble about semantics). Some of my first experiences that I had where I really engaged with a story, however, was playing the Final Fantasy games as a youth. Many of the FF games have sci-fi elements to them, albeit mixed in with a nice helping of fantasy (hence the series' title). I think this experience with fairly flexible sci-fi tropes led me to enjoy more "soft" sci-fi, such as Phillip K.Dick or even Neil Gaiman or Charlie Kaufman.
As for what is science fiction...
I'd be inclined to say that science fiction is a collection of tropes and metaphors that are based in some sort of scientific reality, whether currently existing, extrapolated from a currently existing scientic reality, or merely dreamt of.
Hope that was concise without being completely devoid of any helpful information. Mind still scrambled from the aliens.
The empire never ended.
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