ABSTRACT
Individual science fiction (SF) stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. All discussions about the future are, by definition, fictional, they concern the act of imagining. When the author's imagined world enters the realms of realization, the work makes the shift from SF to 'prophetic'. SF is crammed with spatially suggestive concepts and intensity that in provoking political commentary, also ignites our imagination. SF consistently presents the world anew with re-invigorated critical faculties, and perhaps a greater perception of the incongruity of our society, cities and infrastructures. More than any other genre, SF invests time in revealing to the reader a sense of the otherworldly, it has urgency for and delights in the visionary.
