![]() ![]() Francis McComas), in his introduction to the classic A Treasury of Great Science Fiction (Doubleday, 1959-SFBC edition, 2 volumes), explains it this way (remember that the then USSR had successfully launched Sputnik into orbit on October 4, 1957, and the Space Race had just begun): have come to pass).Īnthony Boucher (co-founder of F&SF, with J. Actually, more often than not and truth be told, the imaginative SF writer threw many inventive, creative, wild ideas against the wall-in the service of story-and a few of them, down through the years, have stuck (i.e. This popular and long-standing notion still exists among a very few of the unenlightened. But it gave rise to the mistaken notion in its earlier days (after the public began to take notice of our new literature) that this was the primary (if not the only) purpose of SF, and the field was thus defined by many in the general public and the press solely on this basis as a predictive literature. That it has on occasion happened to do so in its 80+ years of official existence as a genre-April, 2006 marking its 80th year-merely happens to be a sideline plus. Yes, there are exceptions, but they only prove the rule. ![]() SF, taken as an official genre and in the broadest sense, has never consciously set out to "predict" the future. ![]() The Oddball, the Whacky, and the Prophetic in Short SF Index of Title, Month and Page sorted by Author Fantasy and Science Fiction: Off On A Tangent: F&SF Style by Dave Truesdale ![]()
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