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The following reflections address some — not all — fundamental problems pertinent to teaching SF, and are intended to open discussion of those problems.
In this book there are many things which don’t exist in reality at all, I like that.
(15-year-old German girl, 1971)
Let’s be realistic, let’s demand the impossible.
(Sorbonne students, May 1968)
I see what is, and ask: why? I dream of what could be, and ask: why not? That might be called critical daydreaming.
(SF writer, July 1979)
Co-author: Charles Elkins
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© 1988 Darko R. Suvin
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Suvin, D. (1988). On Teaching SF Critically. In: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08179-0_7
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