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Multipolarity in science fiction – the rise of Chinese future

Posted on 29 January 2020 by Roberto Posted in Roberto In English .

by Roberto Quaglia

Anyone who is interested in the so-called facts of the world knows that beyond the kaleidoscopes of talks about minimal matters, the only question that really matters is: will the future of the world be unipolar or multipolar?

To be clear: the unipolar world is a world dominated by a single political pole, while a multipolar world is a world in which several important poles of power coexist. The United States has long expressed its intention to consolidate indefinitely their unipolar moment resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union. We recall in this regard a famous speech by George Bush pronounced on September 11th, 1991, that is exactly 10 years before that other most famous September 11, a speech in which he solemnly announced the advent of a new world order, led by the United States.

And we also remember the equally famous document ten years later, by the American neocons “Project For a New American Century” – whose title is already a whole program. That of an American-centered world government is also a subject dear to the American science fiction literature of the 50s – I particularly remember Isaac Asimov claiming that either the world would have given itself a world government or humanity would have died out in a nuclear war. The naive axiomatic truth that this future world government would in any case reflect the fundamental characteristics of American society and values was quite evident in this literature.

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The present has turned much weirder than science fiction could ever imagine

Posted on 17 November 2016 by Roberto Posted in Roberto In English .

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q_0I am a science fiction writer and particular interested about what is happening in this field. I’m also interested in Politics – I wrote a book about September 11 and other things which are happening today. I’m also particularly interested in searching links between the reality and the world of imagination, represented by science fiction.

We are living in a very strange age, in which reality has turned weirder than in many science fiction scenarios. For a century or so, science fiction has been an intellectual movement of people who would understand the present very well and imagine a future that would extrapolate from what writers would understandand about the present. Mainly they were futures which would be different due to technological developments, but starting from the 50s and 60s, with writers like Robert Sheckley, it became also a future which would be different from sociological point of view. Extrapolation would be a more complex one than the one focused only on technology.

Today we are living in the age, where technological development, both the hard science and technological applications, as well as the sociological “black science” – sociology weaponized by the military- has led science fiction authors of being suppressed by reality. It is very difficult to write science fiction when you don’t know all the things that actually had been invented and when you don’t understand sociological manipulations which are taking place. Continue reading →

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Ukraine: The science fiction fandom which will destroy the world

Posted on 9 April 2016 by Roberto Posted in Roberto In English .

by Roberto Quaglia – roberto.info

UKRAINE REBEL LEADERS

Science fiction fans have been suffering, ever since the dawn of this genre of literature, from a rather sad complex: the awareness of living at the margins of the dominant culture, regarded with some snobbery if not full contempt by the habitués of the great literary prizes, not to mention Academy Award or Nobel Prize winners. A sort of “ghetto” complex, the awareness of being destined to stay confined forever in the extreme periphery of the dominant culture. In the SF community in time everybody has at some point complained bitterly about this exclusion, from Isaac Asimov down to the latest arrival in so-called fandom. Great authors like Kurt Vonnegut, who indeed have written science fiction, have repudiated the science-fictionality of their works for fear of being belittled.

And it was fatally inevitable that after decades of enduring humiliations one fine day someone in SF fandom would decide they had enough and that the moment of revenge had come, against a stolid and foolish world. And what better retaliation against an ungrateful world than to destroy it by the way of a nice world war? Continue reading →

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The Future of Science Fiction

Posted on 5 August 1995 by Roberto Posted in Roberto In English .

(This essay has been published on the official Souvenir Book of Intersection, the 53rd World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) which was held in Glasgow, Scotland in 1995)

s-l1600In almost all the science fiction books I’ve read what has always surprised me is the presumed absence of science fiction itself from humanity’s future. The past and present science fiction writers have written a multitude of stories which take place in thousands of futures basically different from our present. However, oddly, in none of these futures exists what actually gives rise to them, that is science fiction. Of course there are a few exceptions. Now and then there will be the shy showing up of a science fiction writer as a character, but this is quite unusual. All the same, such a character is generally no more than an elementary projection of the author himself, a sort of self-quotation, something close to Hitchkock’s walk-on parts in his own movies. More often the future described by science fiction writers does not take into consideration SF. Why? Why do science fiction writers seem to constantly forget to include SF literature in the futures they tell us about? Do they avoid talking about it because they think that in the future SF literature won’t be much different than today? Do they really commit such an ingenuous mistake? Or don’t they know what to say about it? Or didn’t it ever come to them that it is reasonable to think that SF will exist in the future? All these writers are willing and glad to talk about the past of science fiction and are telling us all the time about it’s history. Why is there all this attention and care for the past, and almost none for the future? When SF writers talk about SF, why do they always use the past tense instead of the future? Continue reading →

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