What is science fiction?
Science and technology have developed at such an astounding pace that people who lived a few hundred years back would probably think that our lives are filled to the brim with magic. We have harnessed iron birds that fly, built horseless chariots, we have fire that runs like fluid along wire and we leave the earth on a pillar of fire to visit the stars. If people of that time would react in this way to the technology that we basically take for granted, how would we react to the future? Science fiction gives our curious minds a speculated view of the future. But what is science fiction exactly? Of course a so-called definition of science fiction is not difficult to compile: Just take the future and add laser guns, space ships and aliens and we have the correct mix that is sure to be a public blockbuster. But no, such a definition is not dignified of something offering so much more. Science fiction, or good science fiction at least, is not just a transposition of present circumstances on
