Some ideas for science fiction in the 2020s
noahpinion.substack.com/p/some-ideas-for-science-fiction-in?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
1 Users
0 Comments
2 Highlights
0 Notes
Tags
Top Highlights
I’ve felt that near-future sci-fi visions have gotten a bit stale — either recycling old cyberpunk tropes, sinking into eco-doomerism, or chasing the market with YA fluff.
write up a series of tropes that I think could make for very interesting and fun visions of the near future, based largely on extrapolation from recent trends. These aren’t predictions of what the real future will actually be like; after all, as Margaret Atwood says, “sci-fi is really about now”.
Ready to highlight and find good content?
Glasp is a social web highlighter that people can highlight and organize quotes and thoughts from the web, and access other like-minded people’s learning.