Mireille Revland, editor at Atalante, specializes in fantasy literature
” The peculiarity of the novel is to create sympathy, and therefore emotion. The general literature focuses on A I Very intimate, but the uniqueness of science fiction is that it does not move its readers towards adultery in the 15th centuryH Paris Circle… With science fiction, we cross a kind of line of triviality, which is included in something larger than just an everyday story: this changes the nature of emotions, joys, fears, because with science fiction we expand the question of the self and, as a result, once we meet the inhabitants On another planet, we wouldn't have the same feelings. In fact, there is a difference between feeling simulated emotions and experiencing emotions after taking another step, a step aside, toward beings completely different from ourselves.
Science fiction is born from a very ambitious structure: there is therefore a need for the reader to take a step forward to find a relationship with the “enhanced” self. But science fiction is evolving, and over twenty years it has better combined the question of technological, scientific, and societal development with emotion and the quality of empathy; Perhaps because there was a 'back to earth', which was so 'universal' in the twentieth century… The basic emotion in science fiction, more than in any other form of literature, is vertigo. This cerebral vertigo is an absolute emotion, this emotion where the world is turned upside down, when I am taken where I did not expect. The effect of a vertigo that is about to fall is the basis of science fiction. »
