>whch would make them sci-fi at Shakespeare's time, since the term 'science' wasn't around yet
This is incredibly stupid
Real Literature = Sci-Fi
Brody Price
Samuel Sanders
>realistic literature started with the rise of modern capitalism.
See: Realism.
Alternatively, see: New Tragedy.
Jeremiah Jenkins
The problem is that science fictions primary purpose is escapism, usually through rehashed plots and cliches which are exciting because they're unexplored.
If you believe this was dante, milton and shakespeares goal then yes, real literature = SciFi
Jacob Murphy
>escapism
You keep saying this word, yet never explain why it's bad. Is literature somehow obliged to be about muh human condition and deep philosophical feels to have worth? Why is letting imagination run wild to weave a vivid, inspiring fictional world any worse?
You guys stink of english major and desperation to validate reading as a totally-important-thing-to-do
Jack Brown
No.
Sci-Fi themes and devices become outdated too quickly, it makes disinterested contemplation impossible. basically the (outdated) tech aspect makes it to hard to take seriously
its genre fiction, not literature.
Jose Cox
>scifi is about the tech itself and not about the implications and meanings that such tech can provide to humans has a species
nice opinions mongo