By: Graham Storrs
You’re spot on about SF being a ‘future simulator’ playing forward from the state we find ourselves in. It has always been the case that SF has concerned itself with today’s issues and has often...
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Well, that is one viewpoint. I’ve always liked SciFi speculative fiction, and I think it’s helped to broaden my mind. Life has always been one of change. Life changes day to day, minute to minute. It...
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it’s not about predicting the future so that we know exactly what is going to happen, it’s more about drawing up a road map of potential pitfalls so that we may have some choice in where our path goes....
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[...] Science Fiction as a tool for human survival | Netflow Developments Ja, heute ist SF im Kino halt öfters Effektepopcorn. Avatar soll ja auch etwas Nachdenkenswertes haben. Ansonsten gibts aber...
View ArticleBy: Alley
I’ve been reading SF since the early 60′s, and like anything thing else, SF is growing up. Consider looking at the term “specualtive fiction” as a replacement for “science fiction”, “fantasy”,...
View ArticleBy: Bill
I’ve often said Future Shock (remember Alvin Toffler?) happens to those who don’t read SF. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock Code word alert: Science Fiction, SF and Speculative Fiction are...
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View ArticleBy: A. Victoria Mixon, Editor » Blog Archive » Surfing the e-book wave
[...] the writer’s side of the picture, someone has written a pretty interesting analysis of using sci fi as a tool for human survival. Are you writing speculative sci fi? Maybe you should [...]
View ArticleBy: Joe Haldeman
As a science fiction writer who also teaches SF (at MIT, since 1983), let me add my voice to Bill’s number 7. “Sci-fi” is a denigrating neologism, even when it’s not intended to be. Joe Haldeman
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I think Hollywood’s current fascination with science fiction is here to stay. Here’s why… video games have made science fiction more profitable than ever before — and the maturation and widespread...
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