Eileen Gunn writes, “What’s science fiction good for? The May issue of Smithsonian magazine has an essay on the relationship between science, science fiction, and the future
by Boing Boing buddy Eileen Gunn. Major writers – Ursula K. Le Guin,
William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Samuel R. Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson,
Cory Doctorow and others – talk about why science fiction likes to
think about the future and how SF can be used to help scientists think
about the uses and ethics of their inventions. The rest of the issue
covers science and ethical issues of the near future.”
