Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:11:12 -0700
From: Anders Larsson <Anders.Larsson@hvi.uu.se>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Science-fiction and Reality, Help needed


Boda Gabor Ferenc wrote:
>
> I have to write an article with this title:
> Science-fiction and reality, Popular misbeliefs

Dear Gabor Boda,

Please make a change in your title. *It* is really a misbelief.
Science fiction has nothing to do with misbeliefs. It is a genre in
litterature where the author _speculate_ about "what would the future be
like *if* certain inventions were made or certain creatures exist".
Please excuse this rough definition of the broad SF-genre. My point is
that the SF authors don't claim that the world he describe really exist.
(Well, L Ron Hubbard is one exception...)

"Folklore and reality, popular misbeliefs" would be, according to my
opinion, a better title of your work.

Sorry for this off-topic remark.

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