“Science fiction is the primary non-realistic mode of imaginative creation in the human age. It is the primary cultural way in which humans imaginatively situate themselves in time and space” (Franklin 2). The domain of science fiction is based on the possible. It ranges from the current Earth that the human mind knows to the limits of all the possible universes that the human imagination can project, be it the past, present, future or alternative space-time continuums (Franklin 1). Science fiction embraces the American ideology of technological utopianism as the belief that technological advances will ferociously improve human and social cultural relations and imagines alternative worlds in which current developments are pushed to logical extremes as social, political, scientific, technological and cultural. “Social reformers who wrote utopian tales of future societies often saw improvements in communication as closely linked to the restructuring of the social order” (Jenkins 1). He offers wry perspectives on the rise of television and advertising (Jenkins 2), but also suggests illogical, counterfactual possibilities and flashes of flashes of potential futures that readers will likely not face (Ghiglione 1). There were pulp adventures of “space opera,” more rigorous “speculative fiction,” and “social science fiction” that developed a self-conscious identity that attracted young fans and acquired new levels of imaginative and stylistic sophistication (Wolfe, Introduction 1). “Science fiction has been linked to the increasingly visible role of the media in our national culture” (Jenkins 1). Science fiction became a popular topic to write about in the 1950s due to the advancement of technology, there was greater expression...... half of the paper writers... of the 1950s for the fundamental body of ideas and technique with which they work today” (Silverberg 3). 1950s science fiction became the code of the future (Wolfe, Golden 1), where there was more diversity and ambition than in the 1940s. Numerous stories were published quickly due to the remarkable achievements of Campbell's golden age. “New magazines like Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction were more suited to the literary or satirical forms of science fiction than Campbell had been” (Wolfe, Why 1). Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card says, "We need to think about them so that if the worst comes to worst, we'll already know how to live in that universe." Science fiction has become so popular because it allows the mind to expand and think of new concepts that predict the future life of human beings as time passes..
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