Science fiction = Modern art
Science fiction = Modern art. They transcend culture because they're about where we're going not where we're from. If they're made well then it's about what we are at our core. You shouldn't have to know anything going in. They are make a world for us that we can all share in. You have to go in to it open and you will come away changed. Maybe one day I will write a paper about it? Or maybe I will change my mind?