Didn't our estimated writer predict the death of genre to e-book marketplaces anyway? I've loved his work in the Merchant Princes series (Fantasy/SF/Economics/S

Didn't our estimated writer predict the death of genre to e-book marketplaces anyway? I've loved his work in the Merchant Princes series (Fantasy/SF/Economics/Steampunk), but also his take on the difficult and rewarding exercise of making stories in a near-future society of interconnected and realistic predictions (hard sf/futurism/sociology, Halting State and Rule 34). If I can enjoy an author despite apparent genre schizophrenia, I'll probably continue to enjoy SF even if no consensus is built to address future shock. However, he has a point that there is a risk that the aesthetic of SF is being co-opted by what are essentially fantasy works which don't really engage with science, technology, the present, or the big what-ifs. I hope the good stuff of SF can survive that.