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What are we missing in SF?
Sep. 22nd, 2018 10:18 amCharlie Stross spends an essay to ask the question, what big [sf] themes am I (and everyone else) ignoring?
Which indirectly caused me to ask myself why I've been spending whole novels in fantasies when I was a hard-core SF reader while I was a kid. I wanted to be an Astronaut as a kid, and that desire was constant until sometime beginning 11th grade and ending my 2nd year of college. I wanted a space future. I was quietly sure the more likely future was depicted in the Cyberpunk novels, full of megacorps having more power than governments, but I still had hope I'd get to space.
What happened to get me from thinking of stories in possible futures, to thinking of stories in secondary worlds (that may look like this one a lot, or be completely different)?
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Which indirectly caused me to ask myself why I've been spending whole novels in fantasies when I was a hard-core SF reader while I was a kid. I wanted to be an Astronaut as a kid, and that desire was constant until sometime beginning 11th grade and ending my 2nd year of college. I wanted a space future. I was quietly sure the more likely future was depicted in the Cyberpunk novels, full of megacorps having more power than governments, but I still had hope I'd get to space.
What happened to get me from thinking of stories in possible futures, to thinking of stories in secondary worlds (that may look like this one a lot, or be completely different)?
( Read more... )
