SCIENCE FICTION GENRE

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Everybody loves a good Earth-based science fiction novel don’t they? Okay, well maybe not simply everyone of you but, plenty of you who are reading this I hope, at least will.

Trudging through the realms of the internet as I tend to do, before writing any article, I came across this pertinent information below, in relation to sci-fi, which was written and published within The Conversation, by Gavin Miller, Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities, University of Glasgow (February 18th 2020.)

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).

Psychology has often supported this dismissal of the genre. The most recent psychological accusation against science fiction is the “great fantasy migration hypothesis”. This supposes that…