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The last days of SF? Not a subject I'll debate.
But, points of fact:
- Asimov's Foundation timeline extends *tens* of thousands of years into the future. 25,000+
- Plenty of current SF has settings well beyond "a few hundred years". At least three ongoing series from the likes of Weber, Drake, Bujold, etc are set thousands of years in the future.
- The plurality of SF has *always* been set in the present or near future; just ask Dick Seaton and Susan Calvin.
- SF is *not* about technical extrapolation or predicting the future; it is about exploring ideas in a rationalist fashion.
- Setting is just a storytelling element. It doesn't deine the story, much less the genre or the field.
- SF is all around us; just because the marketers don't trumpet it doesn't mean it isn't blooming.
Last edited by fjtorres; 05-06-2012 at 07:27 AM.
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