See William Blake, The Classic Hundred Poems (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2008). See Alfred Bester, The Stars my Destination (New York: Putnam, 1957). The decision on the matter is always left to the generations to come, and our track record for predicting the future of our race's decisions on any subject is signally poor. Just how long this “quite a while” might be, no one can say for sure. Whatever the answers to these questions, they would immediately open a debate that, by its very nature, has no resolution. Were I to employ the term as a value judgment rather than as a statement of intentions, my choice would immediately prompt the question of what art is, and what science fiction narratives can be described in such terms. In this specific case, I refer to the writing of fiction. Here I use the term “artist” to mean someone dedicated to an artistic pursuit. See Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove, Trillion Year Spree, 2nd ed. Jim Pass, “Pioneers on the Astrosociological Frontier: Introduction to the First Symposium on Astrosociology,” in Glen Robertson, ed., Proceedings of the Space Propulsion, and Energy Sciences International Forum 2009, Huntsville, Alabama, p. Jim Pass, “Enhancing Space Exploration by Adding Astrosociology to the STEM Model,” proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space 2007 Conference and Exhibition, Long Beach, California, (accessed August 2010), p. Jim Pass, “Inaugural Essay: The Definition and Relevance of Astrosociology in the Twenty-First Century (Part Two: Relevance of Astrosociology as a New Subfield of Sociology),” unpublished proceedings of the California Sociological Association Annual Meeting, November 2004, Riverside, California, (accessed August 2010).
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