Science Fiction: Not merely a genre for fanboys/girls and geeks (Part II)

Jeet Heer talking about the late Barry Malzberg:

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/barry-malzberg-obituary-science-fictio...

Some SF titles to watch for in 2025:

https://lithub.com/20-sci-fi-and-fantasy-books-to-look-forward-to-in-2025/?utm_s...

>2 CliffBurns: Read the first Emery Robin novel, to which the one in the list is a sequel. It was not good.

>3 iansales: I'm not familiar with 98% of the authors who made the list.

Very few of the titles had any appeal for me--I posted the article and it was strictly FYI.

Jonathan Lethem writes about Philip K. Dick, Mars, literary theory, Fredric Jameson...and Palestine.

Makes for a hell of a Venn diagram:

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/11/14/multiple-worlds-vying-to-exist-ph...

Review of Christopher Priest's bio of J.G. Ballard:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/20/the-illuminated-man-by-christopher...

After reading a couple by Neil Stephenson (Cryptonomicon and Anathem) I went back to 'where it all began'. Snow Crash was disappointing showboating and hasn't aged all that well, but The Diamond Age is impressing me so far. Nanotechnology isn't 'sexy' enough to appear in a lot of headlines right now, so it's fun to see its extreme theoretical future state being showcased and explored.

>7 Cecrow: I remember wondering what all the fuss about Snow Crash was at the time, and I much preferred The Diamond Age. But I went off Stephenson after ploughing through the first two books of his Baroque Cycle. But I recently picked up an ebook copy of Anathem for pennies, so we'll see how it goes.

"Thrutopia", a new sub-genre of SF:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/what-on-earth-thrutopia-9.7206857