%0 artículo original %A Alfaro Vargas, Roy %D 2016 %G spa %T Marxism and science fiction %U https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/praxis/article/view/7601 %X This article analyzes the relation between Marxism and science fiction around the con- cept of novum and the process of cognitive estrangement, which define science fiction. This article studies the theory and practice of science fiction, so long as science fiction is a manifestation of the critical theory and, therefore, as a part of an ontology of congruence and of the social critique. Also, it is established a critique of the current science fiction what is linked to Neoliberalism and to the pedagogical project of World Bank.