On 25 Aug 2004, at 4:19 pm, Nick Arnett wrote:
Doesn't science fiction require *fictitious* science, i.e., stuff that hasn't been discovered/invented yet?
No. Fictitious technology maybe, but not science. I mean it *could* have fictitious science, but it doesn't require it.
Pre-1969 moon-landing stories from the fifties and sixties could use real science and fictitious technology.
And Analog frequently publishes near-future stories that are about technology rather than science.
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