Elliott Bignell
Jul 17, 2022

Reading this, the thought sprang to mind that good SciFi is inherently usually about how the future is different from the past, rather than how everything remains the same. It's a necessarily anti-conservative medium, seen like that. There are some dystopian outliers, like Barry Longyear's "Sea of Glass", but even here the society he portrays has definitely changed. (It's just human nature that remains horrific.)

I recommend to all readers the SciFi of the late Iain M. Banks, whose Cutlure is most certainly woke. (Or even post-woke, as physical identity is mostly optional.)

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Elliott Bignell
Elliott Bignell

Written by Elliott Bignell

Software engineer, photographer, cook, bedroom guitarist and karateka

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