Science fiction, I've always felt, is part of that fantastical tradition. It's a modern variant of it, for a world in which things that once would have been thought of as magic are now part of everyday life. Currently it's a minority interest, but a

Science fiction, I've always felt, is part of that fantastical tradition. It's a modern variant of it, for a world in which things that once would have been thought of as magic are now part of everyday life. Currently it's a minority interest, but a time may well come when the fantastical fiction is the dominant form.
The d______ of science fiction.

development