To the degree that science fiction has anything to do with the future, it describes the present as accurately as possible and makes its bet on that.
To the degree that science fiction has anything to do with the future, it describes the present as accurately as possible and makes its bet on that.
“Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.”
Anne Carson | “Short Talk on Sylvia Plath”