Manu Park

Although science fictions depict a fictitious world, we could expect ‘Science’ in them.

It has been accepted that science fictions create narratives which could be set beyond history. As fictitious stories set in the future have come true, elements which used be regarded as imagination have become scientific forecast, and they are no longer free from restrictions that time imposes.

Alternative reality, which imagination created, has become one outlook and now imagination is not only about the future but also about the past. The prequel syndrome, observed in ‘Star trek: The Beginning’, ‘Batman begins’, ‘The Dark Knight’, or ‘X-Men: Wolverine’, is one of phenomena which are happening in popular culture. Since storyline of time travel which is traditional in science fiction is recognized as an alternative perspective on the world and the universe, the followers began to wonder what their past life was like. It might be appropriate to say that they began to imagine their origin.