![]() ![]() Don’t ask them what they read, ask them what they reread” “If you’re looking to try out science fiction, the best idea is to ask somebody who reads within the genre. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich are absolutely science fiction, with the reality-bending inventiveness of the 1960s new wave sci-fi. Somewhere in Time is well within the time-travel sub-genre. The Time-Traveler’s Wife, Slaughterhouse-Five and Jurassic Park are all science fiction – they just weren’t marketed that way. When they do, nobody thinks of them as sci-fi, but they are. Written science fiction, on the other hand, has gone through many generations since the 1920s, few of which show up in film. Unfortunately, with rare exceptions, sci-fi films resemble written science fiction of the 1920s and 30s – full of adventure, a gosh-wow attitude toward technology and characters who are paper-thin, there to have terrible things happen to them and somehow find a way to survive. ![]() If you haven’t been reading sci-fi, chances are you know of it only through science fiction movies. Written science fiction has as much variety inside it as all of literature has outside it. What would you say to a book lover who has never read science fiction, to persuade them to try the genre? Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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