Column: How Fantasy and Science Fiction Literature Made Me a Better Activist. PART 2: Literary Science Fiction: Always the Most Human Stories
Building a better world starts by articulating what might initially seem abstract within the restraints of our current political and social structures. Realism and non-fiction tend to fail us in this regard by locking our minds within the existing systems. But science fiction offers us opportunities to expand our thinking into making the impossible possible through that first, crucial step: imagining it.