Hello everyone.
I am re-reading some classic sci-fi, to get a feel, and I just watched an episode of the old "X-files".
Sci-fi often involves thought experiments, as in "what-if" something was true or something happened. In many of the good stories, including the X-files, I see people talking and discussing the possibilities, as opposed to those possibilities being shown in dramatic fashion. So, for example, in the classic Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, there is an iconic confrontation between the villain, the Mule, and the First Citizen of the Second Foundation, where they talk - not show - of who would be outwitting whom, and it turns out that the First Citizen convinced his opponent that he had won (which is correct).
Any thoughts on this?
I am re-reading some classic sci-fi, to get a feel, and I just watched an episode of the old "X-files".
Sci-fi often involves thought experiments, as in "what-if" something was true or something happened. In many of the good stories, including the X-files, I see people talking and discussing the possibilities, as opposed to those possibilities being shown in dramatic fashion. So, for example, in the classic Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, there is an iconic confrontation between the villain, the Mule, and the First Citizen of the Second Foundation, where they talk - not show - of who would be outwitting whom, and it turns out that the First Citizen convinced his opponent that he had won (which is correct).
Any thoughts on this?