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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.
I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.