Things that make you go hmmm
Oct. 29th, 2013 01:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoSometimes, when you're liquored up and waiting impatiently for the unconsciousness fairy to stop by your room with her giant mallet, you find yourself thinking in a particular way. You take thoughts you had at other times, and you unmoor them from circumstance to let them float until they hit something.
This came up with a friend earlier, and it may not be anything new; the idea that in early science fiction there is a strong strain of.... fear of science. That's right, from Mary Shelley's steampunk(*) novel up to nearly anything written by Michael Crichton(**), there are scientists who, despite the cries of alarm from those sane non-scientists, insist on Playing God. Science fiction. Anti-science. Weird.
(*) Prove me wrong.
(**) Prove me wrong.
This came up with a friend earlier, and it may not be anything new; the idea that in early science fiction there is a strong strain of.... fear of science. That's right, from Mary Shelley's steampunk(*) novel up to nearly anything written by Michael Crichton(**), there are scientists who, despite the cries of alarm from those sane non-scientists, insist on Playing God. Science fiction. Anti-science. Weird.
(*) Prove me wrong.
(**) Prove me wrong.