“AROUND THE WORLDS” SCIENCE FICTION LITERATURE CLUB

Session 9: “Science Fiction” on “Medium”

A pessimistic “beginning” of this “circle”

Dorin Merticaru
15 min readJun 10, 2024

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Author: Merticaru Dorin Nicolae

(Romanian version)

Created by the Author by generating with AI — Microsoft Bing Copilot | Designer
Created by the Author by generating with AI — Microsoft Bing Copilot | Designer

Ideas emerge over time, and noticing elements that focus on something makes you not notice.

But my “searches” about this “circle” are already in their second week of dedicated effort.

And the question arose: “Why is it so hard to find “Science Fiction” material?”. And I started the search…

The first perceptions, which it was not too fair to “omit”, are represented by the “presence” of the themes (made by the “utilitarian” “Medium”) that I “fixed” from the very beginning of this effort.

Here are the results:

  • “Science Fiction”: 5.4K followers, 47K “materials”;
  • “Science Fiction Novel: 16 followers, 39 materials (not an error, numerical “K” doesn’t exist);

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Dorin Merticaru

Too old to be stupid, but too foolish to do nothing! Intelligence and stupidity grow stronger, with the passing of years, in the eternal balance of yin–yang.