I think that science fiction plays the role of the agitator in some ways. It is one of the few areas that authors are allowed to really play with things like reality and to expect readers to suspend disbelief so to speak. Because of this, science fiction writers are often pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable, what is "normal" and as such really help to expand the boundaries of literature.
It also serves, in my mind, as a foil to the ways that critics try to take control of literature in the way that they get to decide what is or isn't literature, but science fiction can be so difficult to decipher or to classify or break down, particularly because the authors may be doing things or writing about topics that are so far outside of the normal critic's range of familiarity, that it can serve as that foil.
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