Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Science fiction should serve as an interpreter of science for humanity. Bova feels, preparing people for change and warning of the dangers of an unrestrained and ruthless use of technology...
...from Bova's Sturgeon feels that 20th century man worships science, a good who is "omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, master of that terrible trinity of hope, fear and power." He examines what he considers a mysterious phenomenon. The reading public fails, or refuses, to discriminate between good and bad science fiction, and condemns all. There is an answer for the lack of judgement...
...know of no other explanation for this stranger lack than to submit that there to one target with science in its tide which is as safe to lob bricks as at the home of only low on town science fiction. Put it down and the lightning does not strike. To sneer at it is perhaps to express a suspicion that perhaps science has become too much the master, that perhaps science will become aware that dissent exists...
...blanket criticism of science fiction is to Sturgeon an "obverted obeisance," a childish act of disobedience that serves to confirm the authority science has gained. While Bova sees science fiction as the new mythology--the emotional crutch to soften the impact of science--Sturgeon finds it to be the scapegoat...
Will success spoil science fiction? Two of the writers in Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow discuss what could happen to science Fiction in the future. James Gunn, in his well-documented essay, traces the development of modern science fiction and its recent public acceptance. Gunn sees a danger for pure science fiction as mainstream writers like Anthony Burgess. Herman work and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. turn to the themes and concepts" of science fiction. To Gunn, such writers represent a literary culture that is hostile to science fiction with its rational, pragmatic view of the universe. The New Wave of science...