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Rationally, fictional evidence is useless. Imaginatively, fiction and imagination are the only things that stimulate to push the boundaries in science and tech

• nybble41 8y ago
  Fiction isn't evidence (except, perhaps, of basic plausibility, which is a pretty low standard). It does, however, contribute to hypothesis generation; the hypotheses thus inspired by fictional sources can then be tested out in the real world.