Dear Nikola,

Further echoes from your letter, for which I thank you again:

Stubbornly ignorant as I remain of Science Fiction, I rely on the Google definition that science fiction is: "fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets." In other words, science fiction is a species of latter day prophecy, and as such it is perhaps subject to the concluding prophecies of the Revelations of St John:
[18] For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
[19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
[20] He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
All this where the Bible has almost at its beginning, the prediction: Genesis 2:17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” King James Version (KJV) 

Arguably all laws are predictions of the future events which will occur when and if laws are broken.

These considerations are specific interest to me in the context of my cycle of 52 poems: "Sonette an Chronos" (Sonnets to Chronos), where I had much to say about the present and the past, but found myself very much at a loss for the future about which there was no certainty except death.

Before my very superficial on-line research, I had interpreted the word prophecy as the Greek precursor and equivalent of the Latin "prediction".  If my new Google understanding is correct, the two words are not synonymous.  "Prediction" is the declaration of future events, but "prophecy" is a declaration "before" God, an account of the world "sub specie aeternitatis."

One of the corrollaries of my confusion is that "God", whatever else He or She might be, is a (necessary) postulate of human thought that secures an apparently reliable future. This surmise may turn out to be seed for a future sonnet cycle - to the future.

My apologies and best wishes to you.

EJM