A fundamentalist might think they had stumbled into hell.”
“Whatever it is,” breathed Barbee, “the find doesn’t seem to have made them very happy. “I wonder-?” whispered April Bell, her long eyes narrowed and dark.All page numbers here are from the mass market edition published by Dell ISBN 6-1, July 1979, 1st printing Human knowledge is never entirely consistent or complete, because the human brain is only a crude and transient mass of watery cells, error-prone and glacier-slow.ĭarker Than You Think (1948) Numerous editions.Human belief is seldom related to truth.69 ellipsis represents the elision of a brief example. I do suspect that the critics are luring a few promising writers into the formless indulgence and the willful obscurity that has destroyed the popularity of modern poetry. Getting back at last to our initial question: Will academe kill SF? I don’t think so….Even when the writer aims at something more, entertainment is basic. Though a few young writers are scornful of the, creating good escape fiction is a high and admirable art. For most readers, entertainment means escape.
Considering the uses of science fiction, I think it must first of all offer entertainment, before the the futurology or the social comment can matter.The distinction from fantasy-or from other sorts of fantasy-lies in the word possibility. Science fiction, as I like to define it, is fiction based on the imagined exploration of scientific possibility.Accelerating change has become almost the first fact of life.SF still appeals to the young, as always, because so much of it is set in the futures in which they will be living.I’m afraid the critical tail has begun to wag the creative dog. The criticism of SF has tapped rich new vines for researchers, and I can think of writers who seem to be trying harder to impress the critics than to please their readers.Quotes Short fiction and essays Will Academe Kill SF? (1978) Published in the March-April 1978 issue of Asimov's
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