Why Is English The Language Of Science Fiction?

Over at io9, there is this article: Why Is English The Language Of Science Fiction? An excerpt:

Science fiction authors from France, Finland and the Netherlands are all putting out books in English, notes Israeli author Lavie Tidhar (who's also publishing a steampunk novel in English.) Why is English the language of science fiction anyway?

Tidhar's novel, The Bookman, is a "steampunk adventure, and a book about books, and a mystery, and a love story," and it sounds as though Tidhar wrote it in English, despite also writing science fiction in Hebrew sometimes. And Tidhar says this may be a trend:

Click here to read the whole article. My thanks to The Grin Without A Cat for emailing me the link.