Ben Bova: Maybe leaders should read more science fiction

[jerome]

Ben Bova a écrit un article intitulé : "Maybe leaders should read more science fiction".

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As I wrote in this space a few weeks ago, I get a fair amount of criticism but I seldom read it.

However, my lynx-eyed wife does. And when she spots a letter to the editor about one of my columns that particularly irks her, she reads it to me out loud.

Often, when a letter writer can’t think of any other way to whack at me, he will fall back on the fact that I write fiction. Science fiction, at that. It’s an old ploy and I’m used to it.

Although I do write fiction, my columns in this newspaper are based strictly on facts. I may speculate about future developments, but even those gazes into the future are based solidly on the realities of today and the lessons of history.