Jeremiah Tolbert

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Jason Stoddard is Wrong about Science Fiction

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 […]

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 […]