http://www.spacetimestories.com/commentary/science-fiction-for-smart-people/ Space and Time Travel Stories. A Science Fiction Blog By Sean O'Brien Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:26:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.spacetimestories.com/commentary/science-fiction-for-smart-people/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Free Science Fiction Blog | InfoWebSearch Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:50:40 +0000 http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=60#comment-400 [...] The future will come and go, in the far future we will still be here, hopefully. But that which we call science fiction will eventually all vanish. Science fiction short stories frequently transition from a futuristic tale to mundane fiction. For example, suppose you read a story about a person who carried a portable telephone the size of a pack of cigarettes, this phone worked almost anywhere in the world, and could call any other phone in the world. If this story were written in 1910 you would consider it a remarkable work of science fiction, but unless there were a real story you would become quickly bored by it. If I wrote this story and posted it to my science fiction blog you would claim it doesn’t even qualify as free science fiction. [...] [...] The future will come and go, in the far future we will still be here, hopefully. But that which we call science fiction will eventually all vanish. Science fiction short stories frequently transition from a futuristic tale to mundane fiction. For example, suppose you read a story about a person who carried a portable telephone the size of a pack of cigarettes, this phone worked almost anywhere in the world, and could call any other phone in the world. If this story were written in 1910 you would consider it a remarkable work of science fiction, but unless there were a real story you would become quickly bored by it. If I wrote this story and posted it to my science fiction blog you would claim it doesn’t even qualify as free science fiction. [...]

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