In Which Charles Stross Beats Science Fiction With A Big Shitty Stick

Source: Warrenellis.com

…those people who are doing the "big visionary ideas about the future" SF are mostly doing so in a vacuum of critical appreciation. Greg Egan’s wonderful clockwork constructions out of the raw stuff of quantum mechanics, visualising entirely different ty ...
Full article at: Warrenellis.com  More like this  4 days ago, 3:17pm CDT

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SF, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done?

Source: Hacker News

Are SF writers "slacking off" or is science fiction still the genre of "big ideas"? If so, what authors are supplying these ideas for the next generation of scientists and engineers?After thinking about that for a ...
Full article at: Hacker News  More like this  4 days ago, 12:11pm CDT