One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.
The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.
What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.
Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
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