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And I think it is perhaps more a reflection on society itself than on the genre. If a society a
a whole values something then people are more likely to see a given thing as having value. Travis S. Taylor made an observation in a video interview. He noted that a good deal of 'sci. fi' was more magical than science based. To me science fiction has an element of actual science in it. The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, 20,000 leagues under the sea, Journey to the center of the Earth and more modern books that have science as part of the story. Travis S.Taylor's own writings are science based. I've read two of them "Warp Speed" and "The Quantum Connection" from Baen books. He uses real modern physics to show how such tech. might be possible. And the stories are anything but dull reading.
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