![]() Butler, was also careful to say that she was not interested in making predictions in her work, the gated communities and post-apocalyptic America hijacked by the religious right in her 1993 novel, “Parable of the Sower,” and its sequel, “Parable of the Talents,” was a startling portrait of a post-9/11 America. In a 2003 presentation to the American Philosophical Society, Bear said, “Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate” rather than when it attempts to write from an authoritative, predictive voice.Īlthough another science fiction author, Octavia E. ![]() Greg Bear’s novels “Darwin’s Radio” and “Children of Darwin” explored human pheromones and epigenetic influences on species development about a decade before these ideas were embraced in scientific communities and before the popular Axe commercials. Even Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" is said to have foreshadowed “test tube babies” and Dolly the cloned sheep. Mitchell/Reuters Dolly the sheep on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh in 2003.Įver since the Dogon people of Mali predicted the existence of Sirius B, the “Dog Star,” long before it was viewed through a telescope in 1862, there was controversy on the intersection of science and science fiction. ![]()
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