| Re: Future fiction
I believe that she just means fictive novels set in the future, without using an actual scientific approach. Say you say: Boom the world explodes, only 5 survivers, and then describe their lives (from their point of view). You can't call it scifi if they don't do anything really scientific. (Despite you maybe trying to regain scientific knowledge, they may decide to go and live like primitive societies)
Anyway I think it indeed is fantasy, but depending on the impact of a novel it might give people ideas. Then again in general I don't believe novels can weigh more on the future than say the stupid decisions of an American president.
I think the relation might be the other way around. We all know of global warming and don't do enough effort to stop it. Then the next step is writing novels where the world is nearly extincted because of global warming. You can't hold the books for foresight, right? I feel like scifi and future happenings are based on the same knowledge, that of the present. That is why they give the impression of being something coherent. |