Good, smart science fiction provokes conversations about the nature of reality, the nature of us, and/or our potential future. Good sci fi lubricates the wheels of imagination, gets them spinning, and inspires more of itself within the receptive audience. It may make us feel like we’re on the cusp of something. Something great. A discovery […]
The other day, someone I friended on Facebook, whom I know nothing about, wrote a comment that was incongruous with the post he was commenting on. I made a joke of it and he angrily (one assumes from the misspelling and exclamation mark) said, “Proof me wrong!” He had listed three things I cannot prove […]