I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons. Kage Baker
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It’s instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That’s why I write science fiction -- even though the term “science fiction” excites disdain in certain persons. Science fiction has always been a way for writers to speculate about possible futures. Some writers have imagined what technologies might exist at different times in history or how societies might develop and change based on new scientific discoveries and inventions.

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