A matter of fact or A matter of things.

Throughout my last several posts I have illustrated and out lined what makes science fiction science fiction. To further that point I’d like to highlight some of the new things that I have learn while exploring sci-fi short stories. The earlest science fiction literature that have have come across where either written or published around the industrial revolution. In my opinion this fertile time period marked the birth of what we have come to know as sci-fi. What I found in the earlier science fiction works that I explored in the form of short stories was quite interesting, I saw both a fear and a loathing of the coming industrial age which in one way surprised me, I had expected the earlier science fiction to be less like our modern exspressions of the genre. In fact I was a little bit disappointed I expected to be able to trace some form of sci-fi progression or better yet an evolution of concepts and content. I won’t go as far as to say that science fiction has become a stagnant pool of unwashed un-refreshed ideas but I will say that it can stand some running water every once and while. Science fiction has become in more ways than one the embodiment of the apprehensions pertaining to the future of the general near do well population, don’t get me wrong it’s still good but I would like to see more utopia and less demented old scientists every once in a while.