the future scares me.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Science fiction (often shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a \"literature of ideas\". It usually avoids the supernatural, unlike the related genre of fantasy. Historically, science-fiction stories have had a grounding in actual science, but now this is only expected of hard science fiction. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a wide range of subgenres and themes. Hugo Gernsback, who suggested the term \"scientifiction\" for his \"Amazing Stories\" magazine, wrote: \"By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and Edgar Allan Poe type of story\u2014a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision... Not only do these amazing tales make tremendously interesting reading\u2014they are always instructive. They supply knowledge... in a very palatable form... New adventures pictured for us in the scientifiction of today are not at all impossible of realization tomorrow...\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How do you feel about science fiction"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love it! I love concepts like futuristic technology, space travel, time travel, parallel universes and things like that!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So do I.  I read this great science fiction book as a kid and it really got me interested in the genre as a whole."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Do you remember what the book was called? Science fiction can be difficult to define as it includes a wide range of subgenres."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It was called Singularity by William Sleator.  "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think I may have read that too! Intrestingly, science fiction normally avoids the supernatural. I believe this is because there is no science basis behind it."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is interesting.  I never thought of that."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yep! Historically, sci fi sctories have had a grounding in actual science, but now this is only expected of hard science fiction."}]