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The relationship between the real world and the sci-fi world during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. By: Nicholas Pope

The real world and the sci-fi world have many differences and similarities. Science Fiction is a way for people to escape the real world, and a way to dream of a new and improved world. Problem is, eventually you have to come back to the real world. Reality is cold and hard, it is the truth. Science Fiction is not really a lie but a possibillity, ideas that no one pays enough attention to see wether or not it could actually work.

Both worlds were built off imaginative ideas. The people who discovered, desighned, and built the real world focused more on the task at hand, rather than the future. I'm not saying that the future doesn't have an impact on the present, but you have to finish what you start before you can move on. There is no future without a past and a present. That is where sci-fi comes in. It does the worrying about futuristic technology, other life forms,etc, baisically the future in general. Science Fiction will be around for a long time to come, but the fact remains that the real word will be here longer.

These two worlds influence each other more than anyone thinks. Sci-fi keeps the real world on it's heels, it keeps ideas pumping out. Hoping for the best, but ready for the worst. The real world is the base or foundation for science fictional ideas. The real world is where sci-fi gets its thoughts from. Someone finds something that needs a reevaluation, and because they can't really do anything about it, they write about it. They think of futuristic ideas, and possibilities, and they write it down. I know for a fact that many people believe that there is no one without the other. Sort-of like saying there is no day without night. Well there is no real world without a science-fictional world, and vice-verse.
 * I know that you may be thinking that there still is a real world without a sci-fi world, but without a sci-fi world, how would you know the difference of which world is ours?

Sci-fi on Real world: In the past, man could only dream and write of leaving Earth and going into the unknown space. Today, the past's future, we cannot only leave Earth, we can go farther into space then ever before. Real world on Sci-fi: The real world gives writers something to be sure of when sci-fi is written. For instance in " Who Goes There," the artic setting gave the story this cold, rugged, scary feeling about the story. It was a scary story indeed.
 * Influences**

The real world and sci-fi world have both contributed to making the world we have now. they are the foundation to our engineered world. But because no one knows if they can put 100% trust into science fiction, real world scenarios are heavely favored. Wouldn't you take what you know over someone elses imagination. Yes they're alike, and yes they're different, but if you can't trust the real world, then what can you trust.

V.S.