The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future - indeed Schrödinger most famous thought experiment goes to show that the "future," on the quantum level, cannot be predicted - but to describe reality, the present world.
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge), by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore mor honored in their day than prophets), and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying. Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge), by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore mor honored in their day than prophets), and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.
Tag: science-fiction
Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean."
-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN
Tag: fiction science-fiction sci-fi
Mother Nature is a bitch.
Greg BearTag: science-fiction
You've never been to another planet, have you Aimee?"
"No, but I've been to Disney World.
Tag: romance science-fiction young-adult
There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.
Richard K. MorganTag: science-fiction planets political patterns machines human-behavior worlds human-behaviour streetlife
I can't go back," said Towser.
"Nor I," said Fowler.
"They would turn me back into a dog," said Towser.
"And me," said Fowler, "back into a man.
Tag: dogs science-fiction city
It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.
H.P. LovecraftTag: science-fiction horror
And the Flatline aligned the nose of Kuang's sting with the center of the dark below. And dove. Case's sensory input warped with their velocity. His mouth filled with an aching taste of blue. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sounds of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine spines. The spines split, bisected, split again, exponential growth under the dome of the Tessier-Ashpool ice.
William GibsonTag: science future fantasy science-fiction matrix
I know what ails you.
Tom LucasTag: humor fantasy satire science-fiction quote leather-to-the-corinthians tom-lucas
Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.
Thomas TraskTag: science-fiction trask
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