Novum: Where Jewlery and Hi Fi Meet

Novum is a sci-fi (and latin term) for "new thing." Darko Suvin argues that science fiction, one of our favourite genres, is distinguished from the fantasy genre (one of our least) by the sci-fi story being driven by a new thing (novum), which is validated by cognitive logic. For those thinking of an interesting field of study, we'd recommend Philosophy.


This means that the hypothetical 'new thing' which the story is about can be imagined to exist by scientific means rather than by magic.