ENG237H1 Lecture Notes - Acne Vulgaris, Catatonia, Fail-Safe
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Technology that we don"t really have or not as advanced yet. Scifi is based on what is plausible, fantasy are essentially impossible in our world today. Scientific eyes and more of a world view. Scifi as a literary genre, and how we experience it through different mediums still seem to have a vex of place in our culture. These novels are not about now in the way science fiction is. robinson is pointing out that the booker prize is only a genre prize for. Historical novels, to the exclusions of modes of fiction, despite claiming to be best fiction. Robinson, key distinction, value of scifi is about now. As much as scifi is about the future, it is about now. Distinct problem that at least scifi written in common wealth is not being recognized. Science fiction tends to be marginalized, kept away from the center of true proper literary worthiness.
