“ Science Fiction has become an exclusively literary genre , with books urge less by new scientific enquiry than by previous science fable books , and , unluckily , movies . estimate turn into tropes , and instead of extrapolation , we get mutation : of the contemporaries star ship , the infinite alien , the artificial mind , the parallel universe .
“ Not that there ’s anything wrong with that . author like Ted Chiang and Gene Wolfe spell brilliant Christian Bible by breathing new literary life-time into these honest-to-god tropes . But their concerns are ultimately moral . They ’re not concerned in New Ideas About Everything as much as in the problem and choices those ideas pose .
“ In the last thirty or so age , the only Italian sandwich - genres of Science Fiction willing to take on raw science and engineering science have been cyberpunk and its cousin ribofunk ( addressing severally info- and bio - technical school . ) But recently , both these submarine - genre have been petering out because , I would debate , genuine - Earth progress in both those areas has been both too fast and too gradual : tight enough to make most writing obsolete presently after , or even before , publication ; too gradual to bring out anything truly transformative for the long view ( we ’re still wait for AI , immersive VR , and genetically modify humanity . ) ” – Dmitry Portnoy’sAmazon . Com review of Neal Stephenson ’s Anathem[viaWading Through Treacle ]
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