“We should never wait for science to give us permission to do […]
Alvin Toffler called it “Future Shock” – the feeling that things are changing too fast for us to keep up, the disorientation and stress you face as we lurch into the future. Science fiction, speculative fiction, the fiction of the imagination, it’s a cushion, or perhaps a buffer, against future shock. Ad time changes us in the world we live in, speculative fiction was already there, providing us with a way to understand the world in which we now find ourselves.
Introduction
The Left Hand of Darkness
“We should never wait for science to give us permission to do […]
The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Toward […]
Belief triggers the power to do The magic of thinking big