Science fiction encompasses the future of everything and can stimulate cosmic consciousness. As the ' evolutionary mythology of the future, ' science fiction facilitates the purposeful evolution of scientifically informed holistic future consciousness. As futurist narrative, science fiction resonates with the psychological disposition to give meaning and purpose to life through stories it facilitates total person immersion in the future and it stimulates all the major dimensions of future consciousness. Science fiction is the most visible and influential form of futurist thinking in contemporary popular culture. I also describe the diverse functions and innumerable strengths of science fiction as a mode of future consciousness. Within this historical review, I consider the rich array of futurist themes and issues examined in science fiction. In this paper I describe the historical development of science fiction as an approach to the future tracing its origins to science and evolutionary theory, secular philosophy, technological forecasting, mythology, and the philosophy of Romanticism. It is imaginative, concrete, and often highly detailed scenario-building about the future set in the form of stories. In this regard, science fiction can be defined as a literary and narrative approach to the future, involving plots, story lines and action sequences, specific settings, dramatic resolutions, and varied and unique characters, human and otherwise. Although not all science fiction deals with the future, its primary focus has been on the possibilities of the future. At the outset, let me provide a working definition of science fiction. It speaks to the total person about the future.

Why is science fiction so popular? As I will argue, one main reason for the popularity of science fiction is that it resonates with all the fundamental dimensions of the human mind and human experience. Science fiction is clearly the most visible and influential contemporary form of futurist thinking in the modern world.

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