I confess to a soft spot for dystopian science fiction. Some of my favourite imagined futures include the world paralysed by a giant, perpetual traffic jam (Strange Travellers by Gene Wolfe) and the apocalypse brought on by the disintegration of the moon (Seveneves by Neal Stephenson). The latter scenario unfolded so slowly that the world had time to greatly modify the International Space Station for long-term existence and launch members of the future human race into space. These are relatively recent examples, but literature has had a long engagement with science. Fiction enables us to imagine not only future scientific advances but to consider how they might interact with society and individuals, altering the moral world alongside the physical one. So how have science fiction writers done in predicting the future?
Sci fi and literature: how well have writers predicted the future?
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14 November 2016
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