Stanislaw Lem once said -- and I paraphrase not only because I don't know the exact wording but also because he said it in Polish -- that if all knowledge of literature were wiped from our minds, the first thing we'd start writing would be science fiction. His intent was that good scifi is at its core an extended parody of what could happen to us if we stick blindly to the path we're on. Since I'm generally on-board with that, I think that good scifi, the unhappy stuff, is probably going to continue to be relevant and illustrative for the indefinite future. I'm just not sure there's a lot of good scifi out there.
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Since I'm generally on-board with that, I think that good scifi, the unhappy stuff, is probably going to continue to be relevant and illustrative for the indefinite future. I'm just not sure there's a lot of good scifi out there.