Here's a podcast of my last Locus column, A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future:
Science fiction writers and fans are prone to lauding the predictive value of the genre, prompting weird questions like ââHow can you write science fiction today? Arenât you worried that real science will overtake your novel before itâs published?ââ This question has a drooling idiot of a half-brother, the strange assertion that ââscience fiction is dead because the future is here.ââ
Now, I will stipulate that science fiction writers often think that theyâre predicting the future. The field lays claim to various successes, from flip-phones to the Web, waterbeds to rocket-ships, robots to polyamory.
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