J.Pascal
5/30/2012 10:41:00 PM
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:34:42 AM UTC-6, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> On 5/29/12 9:14 AM, Remus Shepherd wrote:
> > Dan Goodman<dsgood@iphouse.com> wrote:
> >> A fair amount of sf set in the future is by authors whose intent is to
> >> write about the present.
> >
> >> I want a term for science fiction about the future.
> >
> > "bleak"
> >
>
> Not for everyone. As James Nicoll likes to point out, it DOES seem to
> be a particularly American assumption that the future is filled with
> DOOOOOOOOOM.
>
> I don't write stuff about that; don't believe it, and it's pointless to
> write about if it's true, because the DOOOM will mean no one's going to
> have time or money to buy my books in the DOOOOOOMed future.
Some authors I know are trying to promote what they call "human wave" science fiction. It's pretty much the non-doomy sort. Not, by any means, pollyanna-ish but where the challenges are risen to, the sacrifices worthy, and even fallen humans a force for good.
-Julie