(January 7, 2018 at 9:20 am)Brian37 Wrote: BUT to be fair, I also hate it when si fi fans pull this shit about TV shows and movies being "predictors" of the future. Like those into "Back To The Future" and "Star Trek" fans make claims about the creators and writers being the inventors.
I think it was Asimov who said that the job of the science fiction writer is not to predict the future, but to prevent it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'