The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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.
I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
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.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.
Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.
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