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I'm not going to argue with your assessment but... what even is modern scifi? I'm almost 40 and after you saying this it made me wonder why all of the space ope
by swozey 3y ago
I'm not going to argue with your assessment but... what even is modern scifi? I'm almost 40 and after you saying this it made me wonder why all of the space operas I've read are from people nearly twice my age.
Are there any up and coming or recent space opera people I should be reading?
- antisthenes 3y ago> Are there any up and coming or recent space opera people I should be reading? Look around you. Are any of your friends/peers capable of producing literary works that are anywhere close to the work of Asimov, Simak, Heinlein, Garrison, Anderson, etc.? The tech is already here, and the optimism of the flying car is gone. We see now that peak tech is used for nothing more than to sell more ads and make a paragraph of text eat 500MB RAM to "securely" display in your browser. Only after you 2FA to log in of course.
- swozey 3y agolol that's a really interesting view on it. Ironically my next (or maybe first?) favorite genre is just post-apocalyptic stuff. I love the Silo series and my favorite book is the Canticle for Leibowitz.
- lproven 3y agoA Canticle for...
- lproven 3y ago> literary works that are anywhere close to the work of Asimov, Simak, Heinlein, Garrison, Anderson, etc. I think that many SF readers are way too dominated by nostalgia. A friend of mine, the writer Ian Sales, has commented on this very effectively: https://iansales.com/2008/08/21/dont-look-back-in-awe/ https://iansales.com/2008/08/21/dont-look-back-in-awe/ Further developed, 5Y later, here: http://www.nerds-feather.com/2013/11/guest-post-why-i-turned-my-back-on.html http://www.nerds-feather.com/2013/11/guest-post-why-i-turned...
- BillSaysThis 3y agoAnn Leckie, Arkady Martine are two
- Nition 3y agoLiu Cixin, specifically the "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy.