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In Reply to: semi-curmudgeonly posted by Bruce from DC on November 29, 2001 at 16:13:57:
Hi,
Scifi is doomed to falure. Even when it's right ( and we wind up going somewhere like the Moon); time is unkind. And while I think you are largely right in what you say; why did we go to the Moon? The standard answer, the competition with Russia; is as true as it is superficial. Someone imagined an astonishing, seemingly impossible future, of technical wizardry, and it was those qualities that made it the perfect choice.
This is what Nasa has to say of Verne..."After all, it is as a teacher, a popularizer of exact scientific knowledge, that Jules Verne could and claim consideration among the writers of his time. In Ill' an overview shortly before his
death, he modestly said to the correspondent of the London "Daily News": "You might tell your readers that these books in which I have published prophecies based upon the latter-day
discoveries of science have really only been a means to an end. It will perhaps surprise you to hear that I do not take especial pride in having written of the motor car, the submarine boat,
and the navigable airship before they became actual realities. When I wrote about them as realities these things were already half discoveries. I simply made fiction out of what became
ulterior fact, and my object in so doing was not to prophesy, but to spread a knowledge of geography among the young in as interesting a dress as I could compass. Every single
geographical fact and every scientific one in every book that I have ever written has been looked up with care, and is scrupulously correct. If, for instance, I had not wished to point the
fact that a journey round the world entailed the apparent loss of a whole day, my 'Tour of the World in Eighty Days' would never have been written. And 'The Mysterious Island' owed its
inception to my wish to tell the world's boys something about the wonders of the Pacific."..."
Which could also serve as a recipe for good scifi. The real thing is hard to find; and happens less often than I would wish. But I think it's a wonderful thing, to think we might survive our stupidity, and become something a little better. All the things that people have said about limitations, look up, and they become meaningless. The things that civilisation needs, energy, raw marterials, even the sense of frontier....space has these in essentially infinite quantities.
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