FOR many, science fiction is the literature of prophecy. I tend to disagree. I like to think of it as the literature of ideas, mostly about our future but not necessarily restricted to it.
It’s always a mistake to attempt to validate the genre by pointing to the rare successes it has had in predicting trends and technologies, because that prevents it from being treated as actual literature.
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