tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post9215186942534365892..comments2024-03-20T03:12:56.498-05:00Comments on Lou Anders: Robert Charles Wilson on Core SFLou Andershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362734492222851noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-1505031699519090892007-08-20T06:12:00.000-05:002007-08-20T06:12:00.000-05:00Interesting, thanks for that.Interesting, thanks for that.Blue Tysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-92149551510287776892007-08-19T15:30:00.000-05:002007-08-19T15:30:00.000-05:00Completely. There is a reason folks from JPL kept ...Completely. There is a reason folks from JPL kept coming by the set of Babylon 5 when I was working there.Lou Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362734492222851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-46076472809227960742007-08-19T00:25:00.000-05:002007-08-19T00:25:00.000-05:00A stonger battle cry attesting to the power of sci...A stonger battle cry attesting to the power of science fiction. I don't know if this follows, but sometimes I think that, growing out of a scientific worldview, is a science fictional worldview.-damianDJKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09351090279465024185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-11101081775984008372007-08-18T20:48:00.000-05:002007-08-18T20:48:00.000-05:00Well, I have quoted elsewhere Gardner Dozois descr...Well, I have quoted elsewhere Gardner Dozois describing the importance of SF thusly:<BR/><BR/>"The battle of science against superstition is still going on, as is the battle to not have to think only what somebody else thinks is okay for you to think. In fact, in a society where more people believe in angels than believe in evolution, that battle may be more critical than ever. One of the major battlefields of that war is science fiction, one of the few forms of literature where rationality, skepticism, the knowledge of the inevitability of change, and the idea that wide-ranging freedom of thought and unfettered imagination and curiosity are good things are the default positions, taken for granted by most of its authors."Lou Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362734492222851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-45257294610710796422007-08-18T20:25:00.000-05:002007-08-18T20:25:00.000-05:00"scientific worldview" "window of the imagination"..."scientific worldview" "window of the imagination" "rationality" bring it all together for me.--DDJKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09351090279465024185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-54477973242652476872007-08-18T15:27:00.000-05:002007-08-18T15:27:00.000-05:00It's a damn site better than the "human condition"...It's a damn site better than the "human condition" that gets bandied about. That being said, SF can be both predictive and a catalyst for real scientific innovation, it just doesn't <I>have</I> to be nor is this the sum total of its value.<BR/><BR/>My favorite line - "It opens the window of the imagination without slamming the door on rationality."Lou Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362734492222851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-71583536721817693752007-08-18T00:55:00.000-05:002007-08-18T00:55:00.000-05:00Thanks for posting this quote. I do think Wilson ...Thanks for posting this quote. I do think Wilson really makes a lot of important points. I especially like this: "a way to imaginatively explore the vast range of human questions that the scientific worldview invites" <BR/><BR/>I get very uncomfortable when SF is spoken of in terms of prediction, or even in terms what real science is contained in it. That "vast range of human questions" sounds much more like the body of literature that I love so much.<BR/>--DamianDJKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09351090279465024185noreply@blogger.com