As you probably could tell from our previous class meeting, I am no science fiction aficionado, nor have I yet become familiar with many pieces of science fiction literature. However, I signed up for this course because I am really interested in learning more about it. Before diving into our first reading assignment, Stories of Your Life and Others, I thought science fiction was mainly about space and time travel and things of that sort. However, after reading some of Chiang's short stories, I realized that there is so much more to science fiction than space and time travel. Many of the stories focused on advancements in language which I previously would not have thought of as science fiction. My interpretation of science fiction is: any conception of a reality in which things that exist outside the realm of current human understandings/capabilities become possible.