A lot of people may get all their knowledge concerning science from novels like yours. What I do is like a first-stage booster rocket. The second stage is the high school science course. That's where you grab them and keep them. What I'm most concerned about is that they're going to hit that science course and it's going to be tedious and badly taught.
People are very ill informed about the real nature of science.
I suppose if I had a wish, it would be that everyone had a decent experimental science course in school so you would have an idea of what constituted scientific information. Right now, there are little hints that we may not know it all. No one was prepared for quantum mechanics, which is genuinely revolutionary and is slowly reverb-erating through the whole society. I think there is another one of those out there. My guess is that it will have something to do with evolution-something fundamental in how we look at ourselves.