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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
February 16, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 96
(USPS 650-640)
Hays applauds Seib when he returns home
Bv IOSEPH REBF1LO
Staff writer
HAYS — On the same basketball court he had played on a schoolboy more than 13 years ago, Wall Street Journal reporter Gerald Seib heard his hometown mayor proclaim Saturday as "Gerald Seib Dav."
Red and white balloons, Valentine's Day hearts, a large U.S. flag, and posters saying, "Jerry, We're Glad You're Home" and "God Bless You" adorned the gym at Hays' Thomas More Prep Marian school, where about 400 city leaders, former classmates, teachers and friends gathered to welcome Seib bob.
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Before the public reception, Seib said that for one fleeting moment during his detention in Iran, he was among the days as Kansan editor in fall 1977.
the courage with which Seib endured his ordeal in Iran made him a world hero.
"But you were a hero to us before all this happened," he said.
At that time, Iranian students demonstrated several times on campus against U.S. policies and the Shah of Iran.
Seib said that those events were not covered enough by the Kansan then, and said that the newspaper should have paid closer attention
one step ahead of reality
Up on the sixth floor, above a deathly dark ballroom, an eerie light shines from a corner room, creating slivers of light along the floor and the railing.
It sounds like the perfect setting for an Ellery Queen murder mystery.
But the people meeting in that corner room are not junior Sherlocks. They're science fiction fans — or "fens" as some preferred to be called.
Members of the Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction are interested in the worlds of unreality, not the world of cold, hard facts and clues.
Science fiction doesn't follow a path made by others. It blazes a trail to the stars and to the future.
"To go where no man has gone before."
From Jules Verne to H.G. Wells to George Orwell to "Star Trek," science fiction writers have stayed a step ahead of the world.
Greek writer Lucian of Samosata wrote about trips to the moon in the first century A.D. Karel Capek, in his
1921 play, "R.U.R.," coined the word "robot," and discussed the atomic bomb in a 1924 book.
Verne predicted the space rocket and travel around the world - in 80 days to be exact. Orwell introduced telescreens in "1984," which was written in 1948.
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But the record of successful prediction now poses a problem.
"What once was possible to write as science fiction is no longer possible because the technology has caught up with it," said James Gunn, professor of English. Gunn, who has written more than 20 science fiction books, is co-director of KU's Center for the Study of Science Fiction.
And where does science fiction go from here?
That question, though, must be prefaced by another. What really is science fiction?
The definition varies from fan to fan. The adviser of the Society, who would only give her name as "Djinni" Jacobson, said, "If a creator of science fiction asks you to suspend disbelief, and if the suspension of disbelief is essential, then that's science fiction."
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