Futures are huge things that come with many elements and a billion variables, and the human race has a habit of listening to predictions for what the future will bring and then doing something quite different. People think-wrongly-that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t or if it is, it tends to do a rotten job of it. It’s a cautionary question, and it lets us explore cautionary worlds. (If this goes on, all communication everywhere will be through text messages or computers, and direct speech between two people, without a machine, will be outlawed.) ” fiction takes an element of life today, something clear and obvious and normally something troubling, and asks what would happen if that thing, that one thing, became bigger, became all-pervasive, changed the way we thought and behaved. ” is the most predictive of the three, although it doesn’t try to predict an actual future with all its messy confusion. ” lets us explore the glories and dangers of tomorrow. (What if aliens landed tomorrow and gave us everything we wanted, but at a price?)
?” gives us change, a departure from our lives. There are three phrases that make possible the world of writing about the world of not-yet (you can call it science fiction or speculative fiction you can call it anything you wish) and they are simple phrases: It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes we take what we value for granted. To imagine.) The reasons for writing about the day after tomorrow, and all the tomorrows that follow it, are as many and as varied as the people writing. Because the world of the future seems more enticing or more interesting than the world of today. Because we need to illuminate a path we hope or we fear humanity will take. (Because it’s good to look forward, not back.
Sometimes writers write about a world that does not yet exist.
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