Science fiction is the telescope that looks into the future. It not only allows us to speculate what the future could look like, it also gives us tools to draw from when/if these or similar events actually take place. Some of the greatest sci-fi minds speak about the value of the genre.
Isaac Asimov
“Change, continuing change, inevitable change, is the dominant factor in society today…”
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not
- The core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Ray Bradbury
“Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world… central to everything we’ve ever done…”
- “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. About something important, about something real?”
The Changeling by A.E. Van Vogt
First published in 1944
Arthur Clarke: “There’s no real objection to escapism, in the right places…”
We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapist fiction.
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