Fan of sci-fi? Psychologists have you in their sights
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

Science fiction has struggled to achieve the same credibility as highbrow literature. In 2019, the celebrated author Ian McEwan dismissed science fiction as the stuff of `anti-gravity boots` rather than `human dilemmas.` According to McEwan, his own book about intelligent robots, Machines Like Me, provided the latter by examining the ethics of artificial life-as if this were not a staple of science fiction from Isaac Asimov`s robot stories of the 1940s and 1950s to TV series such as Humans (2015-2018).