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New ideas in sci fi

 
 
glitch
12:52 / 05.12.06
Wondering what your thoughts are on sci fi the next generation? Chris Nakashima-Brown. Charles Stross. Are these guys doing anything new? Are there others? What defines contemporary cutting edge sci? Any thoughts? Readings?

I guess what I'm getting at is not so much new sci fi books as new sci fi ideas and forms.
 
 
Happy Quadrangle
10:15 / 07.12.06
I guess the 'Singularity' is the geek idea du jour - Stross's Accelerando is pretty much a textbook example of it.

There's also a general trend away from the kind of dystopic, cyberpunkish fiction of the eighties and an emerging positivity - c.f. William Gibsons latest books, Cory Doctorow's post-scarcity economics and Stross's geek space opera.
 
  
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