I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
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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.
The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more willing to open themselves up and allow themselves to be questioned and have their values questioned when they don't think we're talking about their world or them and what they're used to.
Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.
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