Yesterday's post on the universal nature of metaphor has prompted a very interesting response from Deanic science fiction writer Annalinde Matichei. The authoress of The Flight of the Silver Vixen commented on her blog at the Sun Daughter Press upon how this understanding of metaphor as not purely literary, but inherent in the very nature of being has important implications for science fiction and how it gives a much deeper answer to superficial questions like "why do so many alien species look so much like humans". Miss Matichei whose work we have reviewed on these pages, has made fascinating contributions to a genre of science fiction based on traditional metaphysics rather than materialistic physical-only science. As she says in today's piece:

Of course, I am not proposing [universal metaphor] as a "solution" to some of the problems of current Tellurian science fiction. That genre, going back at least to the days of Jules Verne, has been rooted deeply and exclusively in the "Enlightenment" Tellurian view of science, which is inherently accidentalist. What I am proposing is something far more radical. A new form of science fiction with much deeper ontological roots.