Jeff Noon’s Science Fiction Manifesto

Curated from @JeffNoon on Twitter.

A while back I wrote a sort of manifesto for science fiction. I’ve just updated it. I’ll present it here. 26 ideas and images…
Science Fiction infects and transforms. It questions, supports and replicates, firing off clichés and wonders at equal rates.
Science Fiction moves at the pace of life, accelerated or slow-motion. It walks the borderlines of mainstream culture, enamoured of edges.
Science Fiction is an emergent system. It exists both in the reality of the present day and the equally valid reality of tomorrow’s dreams.
Science Fiction conducts experiments upon Form and Content, inventing new techniques, new processes, new kinds of narrative expression.
Science Fiction evolves through small variations and wild mutations. It is designed to examine, distrust, perfect and dismantle itself.
Science Fiction enflames, enrivers, begulfs, undertugs, sidetwists and interslips. It befogs, englows, transplodes and intraflows.
Science Fiction is modified by its…