Monday, September 10, 2012
More on Chiang
I was reading this interview with Chiang on Boing Boing (the one posted on this blog) and I was interested to see that he addressed his writing style in relation to understanding. I found it interesting that he related science fiction to the way philosophers perform experiments in thought. We discussed in class that much of science fiction draws from the classical sciences like chemistry, math, and physics, but it can come from other sources. These sources can range from political movements as well as cultural and religious shifts. I hadn't considered using the science of philosophy or psychology to base science fiction, but Chiang definitely knows how to make it work!
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I had never thought that half of the things Chiang's stories were about could be considered science fiction until I read them. There definitely were some new concepts presented to me. Not new exactly, but new to me. Many of the stories had religious as well as linguistic components. It definitely helped me modify my idea of what science fiction is.
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