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[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote:

> >> Again, is he writing a fantasy or a prediction?
> >>
> >
> >Are those our only choices?
>
> No, take as many choices as you need to realize that this isn't Science
> Fact.
>

I suppose my point was that SF is not (or at least is rarely) about
prediction. Rather, it is (more frequently) about contemporary
"reality," as viewed through the distorting/magnifying/reflecting
eye of significant differance. (And thereby hangs an entire
theoretical discussion which is more appropriate, perhaps, to a
Delany list than to this list...)


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