Facebook

Twitter

StumbleUpon

Email

topics:

Cory Doctorow

vote downundo vote up flag

tinhousebooks.com - 17 days ago

CORY DOCTOROW: RADICAL PRESENTISM

—

Tin House #41 should be hitting your mailboxes or newsstand any day now. The dual theme is Hope/Dread (our designer, the fabulous Janet Parker, created stunning covers for each). In the dread corner, look for Nick Cave, Ander Monson, Alex Lemon, Matthea Harvey, and other doomsayers. Flying the ...

Blog Reactions

Reading Copy Book Blog:  Science Fiction Predictions in a Rapidly Changing World

SF Signal:  SF Tidbits for 11/5/09

The Book Bench:  In the News: First Brother, Moose Diplomacy

More

The Rumpus.net:  Science Fiction Predicts The Present

Torque Control:  The Link Hand of God

Reactions

Cory Doctorow on science fiction writing – the present and the future http://bit.ly/3aq29O 7 days ago

Lit mag Tin House sucks up to genre w/ C Doctorow essay. Lit writers are $crambling to hop on the genre wagon. http://tinyurl.com/yhdcsqj 9 days ago

The future is now? According to Cory Doctorow, & other SF writers,ie. Orwell, it's always been about the present: http://bit.ly/1evmFc 10 days ago

more

Leave a Comment

Science Fiction Predictions in a Rapidly Changing World
Reading Copy Book Blog — ... but by casting a technological innovation in the starring role of Frankenstein, she was able to tap into present-day fears about technology overpowering its masters and the hubris of the inventor. Orwell didn’t worry about a future dominated by the view-screens from 1984, he worried about a present in which technology was changing the balance of power, creating opportunities for the state to enforce its power over individuals at ever-more-granular levels.” Read the whole article on Tin House Books blog.

SF Tidbits for 11/5/09
SF Signal — ... by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. New SF&F Translation Awards Launched From now until December 31st: Golden Grypon's 2-for1 sale! Articles & Lists Will Hindmarch on Eldritch Visions of Cthalloween. Mark C Newton on Thoughts on the Dying Earth genre. Caren Gussoff on The next big punking. Guy Hasson on Making His Feature Film Debut (part two). Cory Doctorow on Radical Presentism. (via Locus Online) GeekDad on 2009 Holiday Gift Guide #1: ...

In the News: First Brother, Moose Diplomacy
The Book Bench — Barack Obama's half-brother pens a semi-fictional autobiography. Do science-fiction writers ever predict the future? McSweeney's new issue is all about newspapers. Publishers Weekly's all-male top-ten books of 2009 list raises a few eyebrows. Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy hinged on the skeleton of a seven-foot moose. Francisco Ayala, giant of Spanish letters, dies at one-hundred-and-three. Memoirs haven't always focussed on scandal. Chuck Klosterman ...

Science Fiction Predicts The Present
The Rumpus.net — ... role of Frankenstein, she was able to tap into present-day fears about technology overpowering its masters and the hubris of the inventor. Orwell didn’t worry about a future dominated by the view-screens from 1984, he worried about a present in which technology was changing the balance of power, creating opportunities for the state to enforce its power over individuals at ever-more-granular levels.” At The Tin House Book Blog, Cory Doctorow speculates on the successes and pitfalls of speculative sci-fi writing. ...

The Link Hand of God
Torque Control — ... Roberts on The Black Mirror, an anthology of German sf; also on The Resistance, by Muse Nader Elhefnawy on the rise and fall of the military techno-thriller at IROSF Richard Larson on House of Windows by John Langan and Slights by Kaaron Warren Seems like there was an interesting panel on steampunk at World Fantasy Convention; see here, here and here. Cory Doctorow on “radical presentism“; discussion at Making Light. Elizabeth Hand reviews ...