Jason has a nice post up about the demands placed on science fiction writers who write believable near-future SF today. You should read it. I think he’s wrong, but you should read it.* I think focusing on the science aspects of science fiction is missing the point. Science fiction is fiction first, and only tangentially about […]
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Some Recent Reading: Michael Chabon and Adam-Troy Castro
I thoroughly enjoyedThe Yiddish Policeman’s Union . The combination of alt-history, exotic-to-me jewish and Alaskan culture, and noir detective thriller was just the kind of thing I needed to read right now. But more than the concept, I was engaged by the characters of Landsman and Berko Schemets. Science fiction has been accused of not […]
Today’s Hypothesis About What Science Fiction Is
Science fiction is a body of literature in which it is held implicit and true that technology, and by that extension, humanity, can change the world for better or worse. It holds true, essentially, that the world is mutable, and not static. This would require that there is a body of literature that does not […]