Anti-science "ScyFy".
Strange Horizons' Abigail Nussbaum on the Battlestar Galactica finale (thanks to baleanoptera for the link):
'Far worse to my mind than Galactica's ending being anti-science is the fact that it is anti-science fiction. Science fiction is the literature of change. It's about imagining the future--which things get better, which get worse, which stay the same; ( Read more... )
'Far worse to my mind than Galactica's ending being anti-science is the fact that it is anti-science fiction. Science fiction is the literature of change. It's about imagining the future--which things get better, which get worse, which stay the same; ( Read more... )
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I was just saying that we need to make sci-fi less apologetically. It doesn't need to have "Don't worry about the robots!" preambles, it needs to go full out with the robots and just go "DEAL WITH IT."
Tor.com has a good post up about this exact same thing--about how sci-fi makes it possible to envision answers to questions we haven't even asked yet, and how that's the point.
Thanks for the link, btw. I'm now obsessively reading her backlogged entries on BSG!
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