"Future generations will ask how it happened: 'How did the world get swallowed up so quickly?' It was because we had our eyes closed, even when we could see"
Whilst an alien invasion is undoubtedly more cinematic than a lesson in ignorance and morality this is not to say it is at the core of John Wyndham's Day of the Triffids. Science Fiction is not to present an image of the future, but to present human fallibility in an alternate but wholly representative contemporaneous society.
Why don't we love Science Fiction?
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2961480.ece
Are we living in a Sci-Fi future?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9489000/9489104.stm
"Science fiction engages with the real world. To that extent it is literature which is about now, not about the future,"
Out Of This World exhibition, British Library
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/literature+%26+music/art356494
1. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
2. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
3. John Wyndham, Midwich Cuckoos
4. George Orwell, 1984
5. H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds
