Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Science is not addressed to poets.
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
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