The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
The green appeal of solar sailing - traveling by light, once chemical propellants have done their dirty job of orbital insertion - ought to be powerful.
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
Science fiction is an extension of science.
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 is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
No opposing quotes found.