our imaginations are bigger than our histories

[insanexflame]

"Speculative fiction offers us human beings something different: not 'common sense' but a sense we have in common that the world is larger and more filled with possibility than we might be able to imagine, a sense that enlarging the opportunities of other people's lives does not have to mean making our own lives smaller. In fact, quite the opposite. If we're writing the stories, there's room on that spaceship for all of us. There are not many days, any more, that the Rejectionist feels particularly hopeful about the future, but as silly as it may sound, speculative fiction is a reminder that our imaginations are bigger than our histories, that some other kind of tomorrow is still an option. We are the species that invented genocide; but we are also the species that brought into being the written word."

-- The Rejectionist

Eff yeah.