A theory on fiction and fantasy
Lots of folks make huge money writing stories filled with horror, and fantasy all under the guise of fiction. It has been my observation that the difference between fact in fiction is time. Somebody writes something horrible and sooner or later it will come to pass. A good example of this would have to be this article. A woman finds the murdered body of her eight months pregnet 23 year old daughter, sans baby. Yes, that's right someone killed the woman and removed her baby. If that isn't the start of some gripping fiction I don't know what is. Except it really happened...
With science and science fiction it isn't so bad. From Star Trek we have cellular phones. Innocent enough. Space travel, space probes, robots, none of this is bad. We thought elves, leprecans and such were fantasy, but darned if someone didn't find a whole species of little humanoids in our fossil record.
Some would argue (and vote Republican) that if someone hadn't imagined it first and put it on paper it never would have happened in the first place. I disagree with this. I believe that every horror that we can imagine we can and possible will achieve not because someone put it to paper, but simply because we have the capacity to imagine it.
A mind is a scary place and getting scarier every day.
