DAVID BRIN on Fiction
“Fiction writing is the one purest form of magic.”
Thus spake David Brin, writer of science fiction and author
of “Heart of the Comet,” on why his futuristic novels contain ‘little
rambunctious theological pokes.’
The full quote:
“Fiction writing is the one purest form of magic in that
we’ve persuaded civilization to train 95% of people out there to skillfully decrypt
our incantations of little black squiggles, and turn them into star-expanding
explosions, deep human insights and philosophical maunderings…I mean, there is
nothing that makes a guy more arrogant than to be the god of a fictional universe.”
These remarks can be found at 27:04 minutes of the video of Brin’s talk at the
New York Singularity Conference. Brin's topic? How to talk to your religious friends about futurism and
science.
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