So, what we’re looking for this month are the novels in the next wave of Science Fiction. They might be literary, cross-genre or based in other genres altogether. They are likely to be set in the present. They will hinge on one simple but important change in the way things are. They will be less about ideas and more about people.
Not the being set here, but part of the paradigm shift kinda has to be more about people, I think.
Yeah, I agree. I also got from reading those guidelines that:
1/ The future is depressing and we're all going to die and who wants to think about it much less buy a book about it (see: Your Environmental Despair Post)
and
2/ Before we got such things as direct footage from the Hubble telescope to our mobile phones, outer space seemed really exciting, but now that the most likely life forms we're going to encounter are dead bacteria from Mars and we can't go anywhere without breaking laws of physics, it turns out outer space is actually boring and there's no aliens so any "science fiction" book with space colonies or aliens from now on is actually fantasy.
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So, what we’re looking for this month are the novels in the next wave of Science Fiction. They might be literary, cross-genre or based in other genres altogether. They are likely to be set in the present. They will hinge on one simple but important change in the way things are. They will be less about ideas and more about people.
Not the being set here, but part of the paradigm shift kinda has to be more about people, I think.
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1/ The future is depressing and we're all going to die and who wants to think about it much less buy a book about it (see: Your Environmental Despair Post)
and
2/ Before we got such things as direct footage from the Hubble telescope to our mobile phones, outer space seemed really exciting, but now that the most likely life forms we're going to encounter are dead bacteria from Mars and we can't go anywhere without breaking laws of physics, it turns out outer space is actually boring and there's no aliens so any "science fiction" book with space colonies or aliens from now on is actually fantasy.
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