In the Problem Pit (Frederik Pohl) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

In essence science fiction reduces the entire continuum of human knowledge to a sort of board game, and by systematically changing the rules of the game one or a few at a time investigates] the possibility of alternate societies ... Science fiction gives us a sort of catalogue of possible worlds. From the wish-book we can pick the ones we want. . .

Some sf people are right-wingers and some are left; some are deeply religious, some not at all; some battle for women's lib or black power or the freedom of the drug scene and some are firmly for the Establishment; and yet all of them are able to join in the game . . .

Perhaps the Method can spread. Perhaps the world at large can learn from sf. And perhaps then the ants won't have to replace us after all.

Frederik Pohl