normally we publish our own mad ravings in the rants category. however we believe [Paolo Bacigalupi’s] handle the meandering focus of the science Fiction genre deserving of the deviation. He goes over the program modification that occurred in the 1980’s as well as makes a situation that it’s time for one more nudge in the ideal direction.
We’ve done our own substantial reading of the Sci-Fi that’s out there. as well as it’s not difficult to agree that the pillars of the genre (Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke) feel dated. We keep in mind the excitement of reading Neuromancer, Snow Crash, and other cyber-punk offerings with new enthusiasm. however we never truly put it together that this was a program correction. The older novels were focused on forecasting the future of older technology, as well as as the digital world establish those predictions didn’t mirror the truth of “the future”.
So what about now? Do the Tessier-Ashpools secretly govern that majority of the world from a lofty orbital platform? Is it time for one more reboot? Of program there’s never one single pivot point for these things, however we believe it’s already happening in novels like Ready player One. We haven’t checked out [Paolo’s] award-winning book The Windup woman (pictured above) yet however he believes that biopunk may be one of the new directions for science fiction literature. What do you think?
[via BoingBoing]