Can Science Fiction Go Too Far?

Spook County Author and 2008 Science fiction Hall of Fame inductee William Gibson was on Bloomberg Television’s “Night Talk” last night talking about how 9/11 spurred his shift from Science Fiction to Fiction. “I think it gave me ample proof that the world was stranger and more incomprehensible initially than anything I would have been able to imagine as a science fiction writer.”

He says science fiction can go too far. “It’s empowering but it’s also dangerous. ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is good. Weird ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is ok, but weird ‘Alice in Weird Wonderland’ is just too much.”

What do you think? Can science fiction go to far? Watch the interview after the jump.

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