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


 * Michael Phillip Coffee (Vereaux):**

The real world and the Sci-fi world are two completely different worlds from each other and are powerful and basic influences with Science Fiction. Yet they are as closely related to each other as if they were family. One is real and one is not. However, even if they are different in terms of reality, that doesn’t mean some things that are not real can become real. Without even realizing it ourselves until it is put into thinking, these two worlds have affected each other since the Sci-fi world was created. Within here you will find knowledge of what these two worlds are, who regulates them, how these two worlds have affected the other and everyone in them and some information of how these worlds are related to a period of time in the twentieth century called the Golden Age, the very period of time where Science Fiction started with its first glory.

The real world is as real as anything can be. It’s the air we breathe. The things we see. The sounds we hear. The food we eat. And the objects we touch. Everything around us is in some way real, either physically, a trick of the mind or just an image we see. We’re in the real world and we are a part of the real world. We are a part of the real world because we’re human. As humans, we interact with the world around us for various reasons. Thus if we were not a part of the real world, we wouldn’t be able to interact with the world at all. There’s just one problem with the real world. No one seems to want to share it. Throughout history, humans have fought for power, a goal, or their own beliefs or maybe even a combination of two or all three combined.

The Sci-fi world is not really your normal world. In fact, it’s more than one world. It’s many, many worlds altogether. There is no limit to how many worlds there are and the way they form is through our imagination. Our imagination forms them. Our imagination creates them. They have no rules to begin with. They have no appearance to begin with. The only rules that are there are what we set upon them. They could be bound to the rules of reality or something totally different with more or less or no rules at all compared to that of the real world. The appearance of these worlds are also bound by what we give them. Their very existence is only limited by our imagination.

Now, who controls them? For the real world, we do. We are the masters of our own world of reality. We interact with it. We build upon it. We shape it. But all of these are only possible through using what we have. It’s limited to a point because of the resources of the planet but we can regulate our own world, from nations to countries to individual people. With the Sci-fi worlds, everyone regulates them. They can not exist without our imagination and if there wasn’t an imagination, there wouldn’t be a Sci-fi world to begin with. With these worlds, there is no limit to what we can do with them. Like with the real world, we can interact with the worlds we create. Although much more easily than with the real world. With imagination, everyone can create different things from planets to surroundings to nations and races of people.

The real world influences the Sci-fi world through the use of people’s imaginations. The more imaginations, the more fictional things that can be created and so, the Sci-fi worlds begin to grow in numbers with these creations. When writers begin to imagine things that sound so real, so possible to create that over time, with the right technology, they can become real. An example would be the cell phone. Normal phones were around for a long time before the cell phone. With the series of [|Star Trek], [|Martin Cooper] began to have ideas that the communicator in Star Trek could actually become real. Over time, he invented it and became the founder of the cell phone. With this example, even stuff from the Sci-fi world can become real. It was because of Martin Cooper and even the series Star Trek that the cell phone came to be. Through the cell phone, the way humans have talked to each other changed greatly thanks to the Sci-fi world of Star Trek.

The Golden Age of Science Fiction had its very base influences from these worlds of reality and fiction. At first, there was only the real world. Everyone was writing what they want and so forth for jobs to get money. Then writers began to write the starts of Science Fiction, leading it from a time of barely being known to a time when you can’t go without a day without seeing something started from the base fact of Science Fiction. Well, it all had to start somewhere and it started in the real world when writers wanted to create something unique, something very different from the writing of the time. With the use of their imagination and talents in writing, they created Science Fiction through their writing. It was the use of their own imagination that Science Fiction became what we know now.

The real world and the Sci-fi world are two completely different worlds from each other and are powerful and basic influences within Science Fiction. Their influences of each other have changed much of what could have become of the real world. The cell phone changed the way of communication for everyone and the cell phone came from Sci-fi. And Sci-fi came from the birth of using the imagination of the writers of the Golden Age. We may not have thought first off that the real world and Sci-fi world aren’t that related but after reading this, I hope you have come to think more of Sci-fi and how it has influenced our lives. Remember, the cell phone wasn’t the only object that became real from the form of a Sci-fi idea.


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