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My latest column for @locusmag is "The Unimaginable," about the relationship of science fiction plays to the future. Sf is a literature of inspiration and warning, not prediction.
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locusmag.com/2021/11/cory-d… 1/
I mean, thank goodness. If the future was predictable, there'd be no point in getting out of bed, because the future would arrive irrespective of our actions. 2/
Sfnal tales that posit a predictable future (like Asimov's "Foundation" or Heinlein's "Jonathan Hoag") are pure fatalism.
Instead of predicting a future, sf imagines *lots* of futures. 3/
Instead of predicting a future, sf imagines *lots* of futures. 3/
