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1. • • Science fiction widens the frontiers of our aspirations. It introduces us to new technologies that could shape the world, and new ideas and political systems that could organize it.
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   Is science fiction a good way to know the future?

   • Although science fiction isn’t much use for knowing the future, it’s underrated as a way of remaining human in the face of ceaseless change. The real world of mass surveillance and corporate propaganda may be much more sinister and complicated than the worlds imagined by George Orwell in 1984 and Aldous Huxley in Brave New World.

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   Is the world becoming like sci-fi?

   • Even before the idea of climate change took hold, sci-fi began to think of the planet as something that preceded our species and could conceivably continue without us. It has become axiomatic to say that the world is becoming like science fiction.

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   How did science fiction survive?

   • The genre felt various forms of pressure, yet it managed to not only survive them, but also to overcome the obstacles thrown its way. The diligence of writers and readers who stood by this genre and won its freedom allowed them to present the world the true worth of science fiction.

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   Why is science fiction important?

   • Science fiction widens the frontiers of our aspirations. It introduces us to new technologies that could shape the world, and new ideas and political systems that could organize it. It’s difficult to be an architect of the future without a pioneer’s vision of what that future might look like. For many, science fiction blasts that vision open.

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   Does science fiction disrupt our assumptions?

   • “Science fiction isn’t the only literature that disrupts our assumptions, but it does it very elaborately and dramatically because it’s unbound by the conventions of realistic fiction,” Hofkosh said. “In order to get a different kind of world we need to think outside and beyond our world.”

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   Does science fiction evolve over time?

   • According to Robinson, science fiction has evolved over time. Early novels focused on domestic life and its dramas, while in the nineteenth century, they expanded to cities and nations as their subjects. Science fiction, being planetary in scale, could go even further and depict how a civilization lives within its biosphere—its most fundamental home.

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   Sep 22, 2019 · All in all, it is clear that science fiction, a genre so impactful on scientists and the advances of the modern world, did not develop in the spur of the moment. The genre felt various forms of pressure, yet it managed to not only survive them, but also to overcome the obstacles thrown its way.

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   Apr 22, 2024 · Recently, I interviewed six of today’s foremost science-fiction authors. I asked them to weigh in on how much impact they think science fiction has had, or can have, on society and the...

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   Jul 20, 2021 · Science fiction is a genre that has long used its projected other worlds to offer commentary on our material (and contemporary) one, especially to remind us that this world is open to change. There is myriad evidence that authors from outside the genre use sf techniques in precisely this rhetorical way.

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   AlphaGo, fake news, cyberwar: 2017 has felt science-fictional in the here and now. Space settlement and sea-steading seem just around the bend; so, at times, do nuclear war and pandemic. With technological change cranked up to warp speed and day-to-day life smacking of dystopia, where does science fiction go? Has mainstream fiction taken up the baton?

   Nature asked six prominent sci-fi writers — Lauren Beukes, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds and Aliette de Bodard — to reflect on what the genre has to offer at the end of an extraordinary year.

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   • Author: Lauren Beukes, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, Aliette de Bodard

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   Jan 24, 2022 · Science fiction could go further: being planetary in scale, it could show how a civilization lived within its biosphere—its most fundamental home. Dusy Basin looked like a still-evolving...

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   Dec 22, 2022 · “Science fiction isn’t the only literature that disrupts our assumptions, but it does it very elaborately and dramatically because it’s unbound by the conventions of realistic fiction,” Hofkosh said. “In order to get a different kind of world we need to think outside and beyond our world.”

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    Dec 31, 2019 · It means science fiction can play a useful role as a forward-scanning radar for technological, social and political trends—but in the near term, not the distant future in which it is often...