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The End of Science Fiction by Lisel Mueller 1996. What does the line "The genre is dead. Invent something new" (Line 13) suggest?


A. Humans need to accept that there are limits to what they can do and create.
B. Humans have taken science and technology to the limits of their imagination.
C. Humans constantly pretend that they are far more advanced than they really are.
D. Humans must remember lessons of the past in order to keep society moving forward.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
B

The line implies that the imaginative territory of science fiction has been used up — we've pushed science and technology to the point that the old speculative stories no longer surprise; the speaker calls for new inventions/ideas because the previous possibilities have been exhausted.