30 de maio de 2012

Notas sobre ficção científica (4)

The Paris Review: Why do you write science fiction?
Ray Bradbury: Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

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The Paris Review: Does science fiction satisfy something that mainstream writing does not? 
Ray Bradbury: Yes, it does, because the mainstream hasn’t been paying attention to all the changes in our culture during the last fifty years. The major ideas of our time—developments in medicine, the importance of space exploration to advance our species—have been neglected. The critics are generally wrong, or they’re fifteen, twenty years late. It’s a great shame. They miss out on a lot. Why the fiction of ideas should be so neglected is beyond me. I can’t explain it, exceptin terms of intellectual snobbery. 

Ray Bradbury, numa entrevista muito interessante à The Paris Review 

[fonte: Trema]

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