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Science fiction is a genre that straddles the divide between present and future. It is a genre that gathers the dust of present-day issues, concerns, and questions, molds them into human form and breathes into them a life that is compelled onward into a speculative future. While science fiction often bends the rule of the plausible, dipping a toe into the fantastic, the genre remains rooted in present systems and social structures. In this way, science fiction inspires a relationship with the future that necessarily questions the present structures that will inevitably influence it.
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Middleton, S. (2015). Decolonizing the Future: Biopolitics, Ethics, and Foresight through the Lens of Science Fiction. In: Stapleton, P., Byers, A. (eds) Biopolitics and Utopia. Palgrave Series in Bioethics and Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137514752_6
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