Bruce Sterling - Outer Cyberspace

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Bruce Sterling

bruces@well.sf.ca.us

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From THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, June 1992

F&SF, Box 56, Cornwall CT 06753 $26/yr; outside USA $31/yr

F&SF Science Column #1

OUTER CYBERSPACE

Dreaming of space-flight, and predicting its future, have

always been favorite pastimes of science fiction. In my first science

column for F&SF, I can't resist the urge to contribute a bit to this

grand tradition.

A science-fiction writer in 1991 has a profound advantage over

the genre's pioneers. Nowadays, space-exploration has a past as

well as a future. "The conquest of space" can be judged today, not

just by dreams, but by a real-life track record.

Some people sincerely believe that humanity's destiny lies in the

stars, and that humankind evolved from the primordial slime in order

to people the galaxy. These are interesting notions: mystical and

powerful ideas with an almost religious appeal. They also smack a

little of Marxist historical determinism, which is one reason why the

Soviets found them particularly attractive.

Americans can appreciate mystical blue-sky rhetoric as well as

anybody, but the philosophical glamor of "storming the cosmos"

wasn't enough to motivate an American space program all by itself.

Instead, the Space Race was a creation of the Cold War -- its course

was firmly set in the late '50s and early '60s. Americans went into

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