Keine SF mehr?
Charles Stross schreibt in seinem Blog, dass er es für unmöglich hält noch Near-Future-SF zu schreiben:
We are living in interesting times; in fact, they’re so interesting that it is not currently possible to write near-future SF.
Das wäre allerdings sehr traurig und Gareth L. Powell hält in seinem sehr lesenswerten Artikel auch gleich dagegen.
Near Future-SF is possible:
I don’t see SF as a dry, intellectual game of prediction. I don’t feel the need to be proven right by posterity. If the immediate economic future looks a little uncertain, I’ll fudge a little. I’ll make my best guess and hope for the best. I’ll write a story about people.
After all, this kind of uncertainty is hardly new. Science fiction writers in the 1980s had to consider the fact that the futuristic stories they were writing could be rendered obsolete at any moment by a full-scale global nuclear war – but they kept on writing. They made some basic assumptions and they went for it.