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Science Fiction

Posteritatis

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3. It'd definitely look more like fantasy from our perspective, if not theirs

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 20, 2013, 07:56 PM

Jan 2013

A lot of contemporary science fiction would certainly have thrown the original generation of writers back in the turn of the 20th century for a loop. Hell, some of the stuff that Stephen Baxter or Alastair Reynolds spend time on would probably sprain some paradigms for the golden age writers.

Given that the pace of technological change seems to be accelerating, I imagine SF writers a century or so down the road will be able to extrapolate in what seems to us some incredibly weird directions.

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So, provided we ever reach the technological level of "Trek" and "Wars" ... [View all] wyldwolf Jan 2013 OP

they will concoct a horrific, imaginary world in which ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2013 #1

Science fiction has never had a problem SheilaT Jan 2013 #2

It'd definitely look more like fantasy from our perspective, if not theirs Posteritatis Jan 2013 #3

We'll never know. softhearted Feb 2013 #4