What’s Science Fiction?
Science fiction defies categorization, as it is a large gathering of various forms of horror fiction, futuristic, fantasy, magic had, and a wealth of more demonic monsters of the Middle Ages to present in his concern for the fire of hell includes sentencing.
The interest in the future is always in part to fear the unknown, mysterious, and is based “how-to-come”. HG Wells was affected by the threat / promise of the technology. He struggled in his time to create a peaceful world community, deeply impressed by his death with the inability of humankind to transcend the limits of his time disappointed. So, of course, dreamed of time travel into the past, the only solution.
Forty years later, wrote Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell (1984) scathing indictments, the dystopias of science, technology and its dehumanizing inventions. Orwell predicted Mind Control by fear and intimidation, while Huxley imagined biological engineering education, hedonistic pleasure drug drones.
At the beginning of the Cold War, Ray Bradbury, a consummate romantic, Dandelion Wine idyllic beauty wrote in the summer of bliss, however, was of a nuclear holocaust was shocked when he hit the ground, the destruction developed by themselves and as high-Mars, The Martian Chronicles.
In the last years of the 20 Michael Crichton, worrying about viruses and medical team writes stories like Armageddon Coma, Jurassic Park and Andromeda Strain, but then tries to convince us that there is nothing to discuss global warming in the Fear State of Fear.
Well, at the end of the science fiction of the twentieth century was almost synonymous with magical fantasy story Hobbit. You can not know if Neil Gaiman mythic storytelling magic once known children’s story, or write a story about older people. It seems he is doing in American Gods, which illustrates what happens to science fiction. It has a no-no limits-are-in-the-universe writing fantasy, science fiction turning into cartoons and comic books for adults. I’m totally fantasy. That is what is fiction.
But now science has entered the realm of fiction, such as by hypothetical models of the environment, the climate, the size of the planet, etc., the invention of the two planets in fiction, and reach scientific conclusions about the nature of life would be developed.
We learn that the structure of the model is the core competence of science. That’s all the different forms of mathematics are several kits from the conceptual models to build. It uses the same strategy as Sherlock Holmes, where all the evidence that fit within a system of meaning must. Although Sherlock expected only tangible evidence would ultimately test his theory.
Today, scientists have found a way of theorizing in fact a synonym. They have become heroes in the 21st Century. Worship them. In the process they have to be tempted by the fame, the experience and his growing audience to please, is part of the writing and science fiction. Only vague statements involve hypothetical to make great scientific claims with the authority of facts. No exemptions are clear and simple. They seem to embrace the illusion that their models can be reality with a high probability of accuracy, which can take side can predict. To pretend that the pure science, the one part of what is science fiction that says that reality, blurring the line between models and reality.
Perhaps unconsciously, that is why, as readers, we have developed an addiction to reality. We look royal families eager to commit real education and real crime the real criminals. We can not get enough of real people doing real things … we’ve lost touch with reality and need to be sure that is still there. Become in the meantime, the fiction is almost synonymous with lies, unless it’s just caricatures.
When a writer creates fiction, like HG Wells The War of the Worlds, as if it was really horrible means of a Nation (Orson Wells radio program), which is received in lieu of fame shame. It is the Judas goat. Like the poor woman who wrote a history of his life are the best-selling, but later found that was not true. In an outburst of moral indignation from the publisher withdrew the book market and distributed by the publication.
As always, the time changes everything. Does that perhaps all fiction, even the facts? In the course of time are wrong … be replaced by new ones. Perhaps we are with many problems to the fact that everything is relative, partly truth and partly fiction is getting used to, and always will be. And yet now, at least for now, we have yet to make a decision.