![]() ![]() “Science fiction is very much in conversation with science” What I mean by that is: we take a new scientific idea, and see through narrative how that makes us feel, and how we might integrate that into our worldview. I think there’s also a way in which science fiction not only imagines the scientific implications and the scientific extrapolations of new technologies and new discoveries, but tests out the societal and personal meanings of scientific discoveries. ![]() Rocket propulsion was first imagined in science fiction, for example, and that was what inspired the development of actual rocketry. ![]() But we also know that science fiction has often been the seed of scientific ideas. Science comes up with new possibilities, new technologies-and science fiction extrapolates that out, imagines several steps ahead of scientific ideas and discoveries. Science fiction is very much in conversation with science. …science fiction is more than entertainment, it’s a generative act that creates new possibilities of life beyond Earth, as valid and potent as anything we might conjure up in the lab.Ĭould you say a little more about why you see sci-fi as an intellectually significant pursuit running in parallel with science itself? ![]() I’d like to start by quoting a section of your book, The Possibility of Life, back to you: Thank you for selecting these five excellent science fiction books that imagine alien life. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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