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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

it's ironic that the "golden age of science fiction" has become a dead hand of the past, trying to force us into now very outmoded retrofutures.

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Ron James
@digitmusic.bsky.social

Retro science fiction is kinda cool but mostly, it’s accessible. Writing actual futuristic science fiction is difficult because you literally have to invent every part of the future. Harder to turn into TV, harder for audience to relate. (In my humble and totally uninformed opinion)

Yggdrasil
@yggdrasil.bsky.social

Even more ironic is that both Mezos and Busk are guided (in some way involving absolutely no understanding) and are fans of Iain M. Banks, a (post-golden age) Scottish SF writer and libertarian socialist whose "Culture" had no money, government, or inequality, and whose AI minds were woke as fuck.

E.E. Reed
@poetryforsupper.bsky.social

anyway. i keep saying:

E.E. Reed@poetryforsupper.bsky.social

me: i don’t want to think about the political. i want to think about the pastoral. also me: the pastoral, properly differentiated from both a totalizing nostalgia and a naive futurity, is the political par excellence.