Science fiction is normally considered as serious literature more than popular literature. The cultural contradictions expressed in the history of Chinese science fiction reveal its absence of scientific spirit. Science Fiction World (SFW) is the biggest science fiction magazine in China and its writers’ group fluxes regularly gives a symptom of paradigm shift of their target of running. In this study, the core social and cultural reason for which the SFW turns to commercialize and popularize itself is inferred to be the decadence of humanity in the past 100 years and a serious position of cultural integrity is urgently called.

science fiction  /  Science Fiction World  /  scientific spirit  /  cultural integrity  /  popularize