The Future – Short Stories from Sci-Fi Masters of Today
A recent Forbes feature, asking some of the top science and science fiction writers of today to postulate on the same basic idea graced my inbox this morning, so I thought I would share it with you. The article starts with this premise:
What happened to the future? Weren’t things supposed to be cooler by now, smarter, safer? Raised on a steady diet of science fiction, overzealous politicians and corporate hype, Americans expected to be living in The Jetsons — but instead find themselves stuck in a scarier version of The Waltons.
The truth is that people simply aren’t very good at predicting the future. It was only two centuries ago that we began to think we could do it at all, and we’re still learning. Hindsight may be 20/20, but foresight remains largely blind.
The feature then goes on to include a collection of great, creative non-fiction, including a few articles by the likes of Arthur C. Clarke and Quentin Hardy, along with five short stories by writers like Cory Doctorow, Max Barry, and Warren Ellis – all impressive fiction writers in their own right. You can find the whole feature here.
