Big Brother and the Ministry of Truth are watching over even greater territories than in Orwell’s Oceania of 1984. Many of the direst visions of science fiction have already come true. Sometimes it predicts future events even more often it serves as a warning. How can we see what does not yet exist? Literature – specifically the genre termed science fiction or fantasy literature, or sometimes magic realism – is a tool we can use to disperse or make holes in the mists that obscure our vision of the future.Ī book is a harbinger of things to come. In this essay, Leena Krohn takes a look at the ‘shared dreams’ of literature – a virtual, open cosmos, accessible to anyone, without a password In the forest: an illustration by Leena Krohn for her book, Sfinksi vai robotti (Sphinx or robot, 1999) The original virtual reality resides within ourselves, in our brains the virtual reality of the Internet is but a simulation.
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