"All science fiction is fundamentally post-religious literature (or, as some would have it, another substitute for religion). This means that the universes described in science fiction are fundamentally knowable. What appears mysterious at a distance can be weighed and measured by the explorer or scientist who finds it. Faith dissolves, replaced by a sense of wonder at the complexity of creation."
Review by Jeremy Smith of The Renunciation of Transcendence:Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang.
Maybe this is one of the reasons I love science fiction so much.
He swims. He gnaws. He builds dams. He moves us with his intelligence and grace. He is the Wily Beaver. And he is here to INTUBATE us all.
Saturday, May 03, 2003
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