In the early 1980s, with the first flush of Reagonomics soothing the savage beast of the 1970s, I walked into the Brussels WH Smith and noticed they no longer had a Sci-fi section. Nope. Now they had a Fantasy section which included all the Sci-fi.
This pissed me off. The idea that rather than looking forward at what the human mind can achieve by developing tech (and itself), the main thrust of the section was looking back to a golden age where things were achieved by magic struck me as wrong and deeply symptomatic of our political problems.
Now you're describing a type of story that I didn't know existed and getting me all pissed off again. *G*
I think there needs to be some underlying political or cultural hope for good forward-thinking science fiction to be produced.
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Date: 2008-06-28 10:14 pm (UTC)This pissed me off. The idea that rather than looking forward at what the human mind can achieve by developing tech (and itself), the main thrust of the section was looking back to a golden age where things were achieved by magic struck me as wrong and deeply symptomatic of our political problems.
Now you're describing a type of story that I didn't know existed and getting me all pissed off again. *G*
I think there needs to be some underlying political or cultural hope for good forward-thinking science fiction to be produced.