Book Review: The art of fiction by David Lodge (Penguin) - Part 10

Here are my favourite quotes/notes. I also added videos and/or links. This should not deter you from reading the whole book which is made up of texts and explanations and is fascinating and engaging.

27 - Telling in Different Voices
[...] the language of the novel is not a language, but a medley of styles and voices, and it is this which makes it a supremely democratic, antitotalitarian literary form, in which no ideological or moral position is immune from challenge and contradiction.

28 - A Sense of the Past
The first writer to use the novel to evoke a sense of the past with convincing specificity was Sir Walter Scott, in his novels abour seventheenth- and eighteenth- century Scotland. [...] These were historical novels in that they dealt with historical personages and events; but they also evoked the past in terms of culture, ideology, manners and morals -- by describing the whole "way of life" of ordinary people. [...] Exposing the gap between the date of the story and the date of its composition inevitably reveals not just the articificality of historical fiction, but the artificiality of all fiction.

29 - Imagining the Future

Science fiction usually tells us how different the material conditions of life will be in the future. Orwell [...] imagined the future by invoking, modifying and recombining images of what his readers, consciously or unconsciously, already knew. To some extent, this is always the case. Popular science fiction, for instance, is a curious mixture of invented gadgetry aand archetypal narrative motifs very obviously derived from folk tale and Scripture, recycling the myths of Creation, Fall, Flood and a Divine Saviour, for a secular but still superstitious age.

Question 
Which is your favourite science fiction novel? Why?