Extrait :
A lot of people think science fiction writers try to predict the future in their stories. But accurately predicting the future is extremely difficult. Instead, what we try to do is to dream up plausible futures. We extrapolate sociological and technological trends and try to picture how they will affect the characters in our stories. We can imagine good futures and bad futures: utopias and dystopias. We can imagine futures where disease and hunger have been eradicated; and futures where repression and poverty are even more widespread than they are today. But how will we know what it’s like to live in those futures?
Good Science fiction looks at the world we know and asks: “What happens if?”
What happens if the ice caps melt and sea levels rise by fifty feet?
What happens if we discover a way to halt the ageing process and everyone lives for 1000 years?
What happens if the government puts a CCTV camera on every street corner?