“It is 2020. 250k are dead from a raging pandemic; a private space company is launching crewed missions NASA can’t. A mad president is live-tweeting a painfully slow psychotic break, refusing to leave office. The planet boils.” —Blurb from “2020” obscure sci-fi book from 2007.
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Most people in one of these settings wouldn't be aware of the protagonist.
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The point is the protagonist suggests a coherent and aesthetically satisfying perspective on the setting, not that they shape the course of events significantly (though sometimes they do)
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Scifi is a kind of anti-prophesy—the one thing that’s certain is that the future won’t go exactly *that* way. But it isn’t a wild strike in the dark either. Over time, as it’s falsified by reality, scifi reveals oblique truths about the time in which it was written.
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Niels Bohr was reported to have said, when questioned if he believed in the lucky horseshoe he had hanging over a door: “Of course not, but I understand it’s lucky whether you believe in it or not.” Likewise, scifi authors prophesy without belief. After all, it might work anyway.
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