INTRODUCTION
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"Strictly extrapolative works of science fiction generally arrive about where the Club of Rome arrives: somewhere between the gradual extinction of human liberty and the total extinction of terrestrial life."

"This may explain why many people who do not read science fiction describe it as ‗escapist,‘ but when questioned further, admit they do not read it because ‗it's so depressing.‘"

"...thought and intuition can move freely within bounds set only by the terms of the experiment, which may be very large indeed."

"thought and intuition can move freely within bounds set only by the terms of the experiment, which may be very large indeed."

"...Schrodinger's most famous thought-experiment goes to show that the ‗future,‘ on the quantum level,cannot be predicted—but to describe reality, the present world."

"All they're trying to do is tell you what they're like, and what you're like—what's going on—what the weather is now, today, this moment, the rain, the sunlight, look! Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don't tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies."

science fiction; extrapolation; escapist; carcinogenic; intuiton; thought-experiment; future; descriptive; lie; truth;

The Left Hand of Darkness

A Parade in Erhenrang
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"The story is not all mine, nor told by me alone. Indeed I am not sure whose story it is; you can judge better. But it is all one, and if at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story."

truth; imagination; sensitive; facts;

ursula k. le guin

The Left Hand of Darkness