Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Unknown Orbits One-year Anniversary Episode
52 episodes already? On this special anniversary episode, we make an attempt to define science fiction, reveal our favorite stories from the past year, and finish up with our favorite discoveries about the science fiction world.
1 years ago
I think of the story by Arthur C. Clarke, ”The Nine Billion Names of God”, which involves a computer which could easily exist today (and was maybe not outside the realms of possibility back in the 50s when it was published). Yet that story involves a modicum of fantasy and magic too. But I think he meant it kind of tongue-in-cheek. Did he not define magic as unknown technology?
1 years ago
I think, that if a story involves some sort of advanced technology or science, even a fantastical or horrific one, it must be science fiction. Science fiction may not need that to exist in the story, but it only occurs in sci-fi.