Posts tagged SCIENCEFICTION
The sheer, inarguable wisdom of Ursula K. LeGuin, charting human ethical progress from heart to stars
The wild SF of Stanislaw Lem, the cartoon version of the 4-day week, & urban psychedelia. A/V for the soul
"Dune" is about more than spacecraft, gifted boys and marching armies. It's a prophetic tale of eco-destruction wrought by colonisation
"Foundation" is the new blockbuster SF tv show - but we would do well to dive further into the prophetic, provocative work of Isaac Asimov
We know that climate catastrophe heralds a "planet on the move". But cli-fi could do a better job in depicting the migrations of the future
Optimistic tales of humans and animals living together in urban futures. We love Solarpunk fiction!
Having avoided a catastrophic century, could we be happy with a merely wretched one? Or might we redefine our ideas about “decent living”, to cope better?
Coronavirus reveals our reliance on each other, and on biological nature - says Kim Stanley Robinson, N. Katherine Hayles, Lara Salahi
Cyberpunk is over. Solarpunk's stories helped us grasp climate change. But the hopepunks seek to raise our spirits
We've been scripting and envisioning plausible futures through the 2010s. What can they tell us about the way ahead?
There's two stories about AI. Usually Orwellian (what we hate will destroy us). But what if it's Huxleyan (what we love will destroy us)?
Trigger Warning - Superflux's meditation on fake news, post-truth and the awareness we need
Woke Space Opera, Kitchen Sink Utopia, the New Weird, The Ultra-Unreal, Gulf Futurism... some useful new Sci-Fi genres
Seven Alternative Timelines of the Future, provided by TED
Charles Stross: When thinking about the future, beware of regurgitating the present
"You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.” RIP Ursula Le Guin
Seeing Beyond the Crises: Why a new politics needs speculative fiction
Using science-fiction stories to direct society and business
Blade Runner 2049: Can't SF point to better futures, as well as warn against worse ones?
We can't escape disaster stories. But in SF, they can end up as utopias
