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Distant Suns VI: Broken Angels

By Mark Bahnisch on April 13, 2009

<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/morgan.jpg" align=left The latest entry in an occasional series on speculative fiction – Distant Suns. A little while ago, I was having a friendly disagreement on Facebook about the merits of Bruce Sterling‘s science fiction, touching on his expertise [...]

Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Imperialism, Politics, Sociology, Technology, War | Tagged Altered Carbon, Book review, Books, Writers & Writing, Broken Angels, Bruce Sterling, consciousness, corporatism, cultural studies, cyberpunk, genre fiction, identity, John Pilger, literary studies, Noam Chomsky, noir, personality, Politics, Pulp Fiction, review, Richard K. Morgan, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, Sociology, speculative fiction, subjectivity, Takeshi Kovacs, transhumanism, War, Writers & Writing | 13 Responses

Speculative fiction and the nature of the current crisis

By Kim on December 3, 2008

Pirate by ~Loserbabooser on deviantART I’m not at all so sure that the connection between current crisis and future speculation (or speculative futures) is as straightforward as Felix Gilman suggests at Ecstatic Days, but I find these questions quite the [...]

Posted in Apocalypse, Books, Writers & Writing, Climate change, Culture, Developing world, Disasters, Economics, Environment, International, Markets, Poverty, Security, Urbanism, War | Tagged Climate change, Dickens, Felix Gilman, futures, genre fiction, global financial crisis, Jeff VanderMeer, literary imagination, literature, pirates, resource wars, science fiction, speculative fiction, steam punk, subgenres, urban fantasy, writing | 43 Responses

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