Greg Egan, Iain Banks and Sam Hughes are good stuff, if you haven’t.
Also, there’s this amazing new genre, “LitRpg”. Basically fantasy where an rpg type videogame became real.
Most of it is the usual dreck but some of it goes hard sf, delving into the existential stuff.
A couple of the rationalists have even taken a swing.
Try
Mother of Learning
Death after death
Friendship is optimal
So ya, real development is still alive.
No, that’s just your damn limited, dominance games obsessed perspective talking.
My point is actually the quality and appreciation of modern science fiction.
Oh zing!
See, it’s always an argument over value with you people.
So it’s always about who gets the credit. Who gets valued and who doesn’t. Who wins and who loses. That eternal muck of monkey dominance battles.
This bs dominates the common mind utterly. There’s no room for art there. It’s invisible.
It’s always an argument over value with you people.
I don’t refer to mary shelly. I do not distinguish her as the “inventor” of science fiction either. Rendering strange ideas in terms of esoteric disciplines for the metaphorical augmentation or whatever is as old as humanity.
Or maybe it’s the obvious. Billionaires. Princes. Oligarchs.
They gave me free prime. I was a god for 30 days. But ya.
Because you already have an account set up with amazon.
Because you’ve used amazon before and feel comfortable with them.
No, modern sci-fi evolved over time like all the other complex stuff tends to.
Modern sci-fi is created by every fellow with a strange idea. Who thinks maybe I could get my idea across better if I framed it as a narrative and put it in scientific terms. because science is such a lovely language for talking about strange ideas.