The Guardian recently ran an interesting article about the impact of science fiction on current pushes to return to the moon. Read the full article here.
"Science fiction is often seen as an anticipation - a fiction peculiarly expected to graduate into fact. But if technologies once found only in SF do sometimes become real they do not, in so doing, always cease to be science fiction. SF is not, after all, simply a literature about the future; it is a literature about the shock of new capacities and new perspectives, about transcendence, estrangement and resistance in the face of the inhuman. Its ideas shape and contrain the ways in which technological possibilities are seen, understood and experienced long after those possibilities are first tentatively realised."
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