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It's interesting to see a product around science fiction. In the past, it used to be that science fiction was the leader and science followed the fiction. That

It's interesting to see a product around science fiction. In the past, it used to be that science fiction was the leader and science followed the fiction. That hasn't been the case for at least a few decades. Authors don't really keep up with all the science or technology, for whatever reason-- maybe not interesting, too much, or lack of imagination. I like the idea of encouraging more optimistic and positive future science fiction stories.

imachine1980_ 5y ago
Sci-fi was a product of their time, today practically nobody live of fiction and most Sci fi books target team drama, also I feel most of us already feel like the prrsent is the Sci-fi dystopia and tech advanced slow considerably the last grupo who have a Sci=fi scene was china and before that Japan wich was contemporary whit the industrialisation of both cases.
onion2k 5y ago
You should read better modren scifi. For example, Greg Egan or Cixin Lui write modern scifi novels that lean heavily into getting the science right.
a_bonobo 5y ago
>That hasn't been the case for at least a few decades. Authors don't really keep up with all the science or technology, for whatever reason As a biologist, I'll be a bit snipe - it's because the famous SF authors usually had a background in physics or mathematics (Greg Egan, for example, has a degree in mathematics), while the truly exciting science right now happens in biology :) Personalised medicine, CRISPR, transposon selection, GM, gene drives, ML in biology, genomics, not that much SF happening in that area because again, hard SF usually comes from physics. Think Forward's Dragon's Egg, amazing physics, bad biology (I vaguely remember triple-stranded DNA). I think solarpunk is coming from a biology-heavy background and we'll see a lot more there. Some examples of bio-SF would be Bear's Darwin's Radio, on transposons reactivating themselves leading to a new species of humans, or Burke's Semiosis, on first contact with alien intelligent plants. There's also a whole subgenre of Biopunk but I'm not the biggest fan, a lot of the content feels like 90s kneejerk reactions without being well-informed. For example, Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl features the usual 'farmers can't replant their seeds' myth with 90s-style GM-fear mongering.

imachine1980_ 5y ago

Sci-fi was a product of their time, today practically nobody live of fiction and most Sci fi books target team drama, also I feel most of us already feel like the prrsent is the Sci-fi dystopia and tech advanced slow considerably the last grupo who have a Sci=fi scene was china and before that Japan wich was contemporary whit the industrialisation of both cases.

onion2k 5y ago

You should read better modren scifi. For example, Greg Egan or Cixin Lui write modern scifi novels that lean heavily into getting the science right.

a_bonobo 5y ago

>That hasn't been the case for at least a few decades. Authors don't really keep up with all the science or technology, for whatever reason As a biologist, I'll be a bit snipe - it's because the famous SF authors usually had a background in physics or mathematics (Greg Egan, for example, has a degree in mathematics), while the truly exciting science right now happens in biology :) Personalised medicine, CRISPR, transposon selection, GM, gene drives, ML in biology, genomics, not that much SF happening in that area because again, hard SF usually comes from physics. Think Forward's Dragon's Egg, amazing physics, bad biology (I vaguely remember triple-stranded DNA). I think solarpunk is coming from a biology-heavy background and we'll see a lot more there. Some examples of bio-SF would be Bear's Darwin's Radio, on transposons reactivating themselves leading to a new species of humans, or Burke's Semiosis, on first contact with alien intelligent plants. There's also a whole subgenre of Biopunk but I'm not the biggest fan, a lot of the content feels like 90s kneejerk reactions without being well-informed. For example, Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl features the usual 'farmers can't replant their seeds' myth with 90s-style GM-fear mongering.