“The winters were getting colder, starting earlier, lasting longer, with more snows than he could remember from childhood. As soon as man stopped adding his megatons of filth to the atmosphere each day, he thought, the atmosphere had reverted to what it must have been long ago, moister weather summer and winter, more stars than he had ever seen before, and more, it seemed, each night than the night before: the sky a clear, endless blue by day, velvet blue-black at night with blazing stars that modern man had never seen.” Science FictionClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingCli FiFemale Science Fiction Author Book:Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Source: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
“The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.” IdeasUniverseSpaceFictionMankindEssentialsConceptsPhilosophicalScience FictionInventionAliensImmortalityDimensionsTime TravelMarvelousCatastropheRobotsCosmologyIntriguedSpace Travel Author:Kate Wilhelm
“Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.” RealityFictionUltimateScience FictionMetaphysicsMetaphysical Author:Kate Wilhelm
