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Robin Scott Wilson (September 19, 1928 – September 2013) was an American science fiction writer and editor, and President of California State University, Chico from 1980 to 1993.
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It is as romantic myth (“as connoting le roman, or deliberately contrived story”) that I believe science fiction finds its functional definition.
I advance the thesis that science fiction brings teleology to science, tells of origins and destinies, both asserts and denies “the expectancy of the familiar,” is—in brief—both mythopoeic and mythoclastic.
One reason for the astonishing growth of science and technology in this century has been, of course, war; but another, and perhaps a more important one, is simply that science has created the conditions—in western society at least—under which it best flourishes: these are affluence, leisure, and a high regard for education.
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