April 11, 2019 When Science Catches Up With Sci-Fi Posted by Brice Le Blévennec Ever since Jules Verne, each generation has enjoyed its own batch of science fiction authors, for better or worse. And the best among them changed the world as much as - if not more than - Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, Hugo, Kundera and their fellow master novelists. While such writers encouraged readers to consider new perspectives in art, politics and society and taught them how to think beyond the dusty schools of philosophy, writers like Verne, Dick, Gibson, Asimov, Herbert, Orwell, Spielberg and Kubrick inspired generations of visionaries, creatives and engineers to make their sci-fi dreams come true. Many in...
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