Science fiction is full of longing. But it longs for what doesn’t exist. Which is why it longs for it. The search for content is not factual but categorical.
Thinking is amateur
Science fiction is full of longing. But it longs for what doesn’t exist. Which is why it longs for it. The search for content is not factual but categorical.
June 23, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Sixty Degrees Below. Compare.
Sparks start to fly when inadvertently in spite of his utopianism the writer implies exasperation and frets, seems to feel a truth leaking into his text: how his faith in science is unwarranted and wont add up to a hill of beans finally. There is something novelistic in this. The counter view. The argument for the real real.