19th December 2006, 9:04 PM
It's like a lot of sci-fi writers like to focus way too much on super extreme conditions. It was perfectly understandable to illustrate in graphic detail in the early days that, yes, nature WANTS US DEAD and it's up to us to fight it if we want to live, but I'm pretty sure most people who read sci-fi already GET that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)