But it isn't likely that science fiction authors are going to envision future scientific breakthroughs or future technology accurately.

BBC: How sci-fi moves with the times

This consequence as led to speculation by science fiction authors Joe Haldeman and Orson Scott Card that people could travel in spaceships at near-light speed for what to them would be only days or weeks, but would be centuries back on Earth.

FORBES: Connect

Editors at Poland's newly privatised publishing houses exaggerate, but only to make a valid point, when they say that the only Polish authors who are flourishing today are writers of science-fiction and fantasy novels, Andrzej Sapkowski, Marek Oramus and Rafal Ziemkiewicz prominent among them.

ECONOMIST: Mass distraction in Poland

Masters of Science Fiction on ABC, a series of episodes directed and written by various prominent sci-fi authors.

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