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>But, while psychology may not exactly diagnose fans as mentally ill, the insinuation remains – science fiction evades, rather than confronts, disappointment with the real world.

https://theconversation.com/fan-of-sci-fi-psychologists-have-you-in-their-sights-131342

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>he hasn't read PKD

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>>14749350
>evades
It's mostly about dreaming of the future. Any reader is something of an escapist. Fantasy readers want that world, sci-fi readers want a possible world. Murder mystery? Romance and Erotica?

>> No.14749470

>>14749350
I think what the author writes here more applies to pulp fiction and lowbrow genre fiction in general. Good science fiction explores the consequences of introducing counterfactual discoveries or inventions or environments, like a philosophical thought experiment.