don't get me wrong - Edit 1
Before modification by imlad at 02/12/2009 01:34:17 AM
I don't think that everything that is science fiction/fantasy has a lot to say about the human condition (much of it does, but that stuff is as Larry put it "popcorn"
, nor do I think that everything that is NOT science fiction/fantasy is unworthy of being read; I do read non SF/F stuff.
But in an age of instant global communication, burgeoning AI and space flight, the beginnings of nanotech and genetic manipulation, the age of computers and direct human/machine interfacing, it is only SF that truly has anything to say about the world we live in today.
LeGuin, Dick, Clarke, Heinlein and such are just as important, if not more important than most other authors of the 20th and 21st centuries.
, nor do I think that everything that is NOT science fiction/fantasy is unworthy of being read; I do read non SF/F stuff.But in an age of instant global communication, burgeoning AI and space flight, the beginnings of nanotech and genetic manipulation, the age of computers and direct human/machine interfacing, it is only SF that truly has anything to say about the world we live in today.
LeGuin, Dick, Clarke, Heinlein and such are just as important, if not more important than most other authors of the 20th and 21st centuries.