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I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. but if the general opinion of mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
-David Eddings
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I Hesitate To Predict Whether This Theory

David Eddings
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. but if the general opinion of mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
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It had also been my belief since i started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. when science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. but it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when i started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.
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When i began to write fiction that i knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what i brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
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I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though i have greatly enjoyed some of the work of ursula leguin. i haven't read much science fiction so i don't know other sci-fi authors.
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