I’m a science fiction novelist.
This means that I write novels about far out places, weird aliens, and sometimes place characters on things that hover or fly very fast. This also means that I have a duty to humanity that is sometimes far above the sex-laden romance novel or the horror splatter-fest.
Science fiction novelists, good science fiction novelists, have a duty to humanity that usually goes unnoticed or unrecognized. I’m sure that when Robert Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers he was just trying to produce a good war story, but what he ended up doing (especially in chapter 8) is put forth a treatise on what it means to be a responsible citizen.
Not to mention the fact that he pretty much predicted the current state of affairs regarding juvenile delinquency.
Sure, there are tons of science fiction novelists out there churning out space epics that are nothing more than…
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