Why is contemporary Sci fi so dull and trepid compared to the past
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Why is contemporary Sci fi so dull and trepid compared to the past
Why is contemporary Sci fi so dull and trepid compared to the past
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Ironically less drug use. Also less pretentious homosexuals like Ellison, Delaney and Disch trying to prove how literary they could be.
It's a shame he died. I couldn't stand the majority of his camp sci fi, but his post70s stuff like Scanner Darkly, Valis, Timothy Archer, etc were great. I would have loved more.
Delaney has really good settings, like a dying post-industrial bleak americana. But my god is he a shit eating homosexual. Literally and nothing fricking happens in his books. Frustrating.
That's why Delaney's best fiction is his short fiction.
The average person is dumber so the average book is made dumber so they can understand it. I have a cousin in his 30s who unironically reads Christopher Paolini.
because we live in a time of technological stagnation. when there is no new exciting technology, there is no new sci-fi
it's more often the other way around.
Actually, sci-fi could easily be used to create demand for some new product, thinking of it.
BE COS
Maybe the people writing sci-fi don't know what motivated the earlier writers; whatever it was it was not to become sci-fi writers as the genre did not exist.
sort like how no feminist after lady damaris masham knows a thing about feminism.
It's easily cliched to deathed. The grand imperializing visions of the nuclear atomic-punk age dialectically produced the quickly exhausted cyperpunk subaltern that in turn birthed ultra-nihilistic black mirror information-age post-cyberpunk which it turns out is just 1990s gnosticism and actual reality from about 2006 on. There's nothing left to explore for real really. Baudriliard was right
Because women and gays söybois dominate the genre
We went to space and saw there was nothing there and even worse that we wouldn't be coming back no matter how hard we try. There's not enough ambiguity in reality for the kind of optimism fantasy requires, there is only lived tedium now.
This era has produced nothing interesting to talk about that hasn't already been said besides 'dey always on dey phonez'. Science has not advanced beyond transistors getting smaller.
Dick used sci fi as a vehicle for his themes. Most sci fi is written for the sake of the futuristic plot.
Sci-fi is where all the anti-human, self hating writers go to write their disgusting genocide fantasies instead of putting the pen down and going outside.
There’s (probably) good sci-fi, but just look at stuff like James Cameron’s Avatar. The “future” is a medium for anti-human, anti-west, anti-white ideas
>disgusting genocide fantasies
I wouldn't say that about classic sci-fi. It was wary of science and the future and speculative about the downfalls. It loved humanity and wanted to warn people of possible pitfalls.
I agree, I should state I’m referring to today’s sci-fi. I watch a fair amount of Quinn’s Ideas book summaries and one recent summary stood out hate filled anti-human masturbatory aide content.
In which case it’s not sci-fi, it’s science wish fulfillment because it’s happening all around us lol
Do androids dream of electric sheep is a really good one, but I read Valis and PKD just writes his drug induced psychosis down, absolute garbage and just sad to watch his soul collapse like that. Still have Ubik sitting on the shelf, but not that intrigued after Valis, his earlier works could be better tho. The future is doomed, especially if you learn from the past. I have read a few contemporary Sci Fi (more cyberpunk) and they were pretty decent, funny works. I think the 80s action movies and music left a too great of an influence on millennials who produce the current fiction.
>but I read Valis and PKD just writes his drug induced psychosis down, absolute garbage and just sad to watch his soul collapse like that.
It was actually a confession. A lot of Valis was a reflection on the sins he committed to his wife and son, as well as many young women he exploited. It was a very open book. The original draft is a lot more staid: Radio free albemuth, which was released posthumously.
His prose is stilted but the ideas are interesting. Valis is a train wreck and in the decline phase of his career/sanit, but Ubik is great if you enjoyed androids.
Filtered!
It's hard to write about people willingly mutilating themselves due to big industrial corporations promoting transhumanism nowadays without trannies getting angry.
Sci-fi only works when the author believes in it. These days it's become so hard to believe anything that modern sci-fi authors forget: people originally wrote about space captains meeting alien races because *they thought it could actually happen*. They thought we'd pass through boring, gay, democratic modernity to a new age of exploration. That's why the only good sci-fi authors left are crazies who don't know they're writing sci-fi: https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/
>*autistic screeching*
Who?
>who
Not trying to derail another thread, so I promise this is my last post. But here's a bit of background from the founder of OpenAI
Another reason to hate that fat autistic homosexual.
The AI bad/skynet thing has been around forever, and still as likely as everyone having flying cars. Sounds like more of a publicity stunt Spudkowsky's up to.
Here's some first-rate science fiction from 2003: https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf
More good recent sci-fi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
Read Mieville
Everything is dull compared to the work of our Lord and Savior PKD. It's not really fair to compare anyone else's work to his.
Maybe because the entire genre doesn't even make sense anymore. What is scifi? Everything that used to define it is already slowly becoming reality.
Hauntology and the slow canceling of the future