" Over the some one hundred to one hundred and fifty years that Science Fiction has been written, stories have dealt with such dreams as the mightiest machine, the ultimate metal, the perfect mirror, the biggest telescope, and the greatest microscope. Science Fiction hungers to see the infinite, from the infinitesimally small to the edges of the universe, and from the beginning of things to their final end. "
― James E. Gunn , The End of the Dreams