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Introduction: Science Fiction and Reality
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MODERN THOUGHT
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10 / 1987 |
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The world of science fiction is not a world of pure fantasy unrelated to everyday concerns. It has become a screen onto which its creators have projected and continue to project their hopes, ideals, and scientific proposals. All of the contributors to our series on science fiction exhibit or express this relationship between artistic creativity and utopian impulses. It is precisely the combination of imagination, scientific interest, and reformism that gives to science fiction its distinctive quality as a literary genre.
Because of this particular combination of ingredients, science fiction has also veered in all of these directions. Some of it features technological proposals served with a thin literary sauce. This kind of science fiction is far less art than calls or schemes for technological breakthroughs in telecommunications, space travel, and the use of solar energy. Other science fiction literature is indistinguishable from partisan propaganda; it uses the artistic liberty to create a new reality as a pretext for advocating a specific political and economic agenda. The best science fiction however, avoids the temptations of personal advocacy. It aims at artistic excellence and imaginative integrity and turns scientific knowledge and scientific hopes into the stuff of true creativity.
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