I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us.
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Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
Science fiction still is an idea genre.
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.
Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
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