Thread: Is SF dying?
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Old 01-30-2015, 08:04 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by Rizla View Post
So it's really a question of defining the genre. Yes, male, solid-fuel/space-opera sci-fi is in decline, and I'm not surprised.Where are the Clarkes and the Asimovs and the Strugatskis? Banks is gone. The only really good author left in the genre I can think of is Robert Charles Wilson.
Of the Old Masters Larry Niven is still doing what he does best (See Bowl of Heaven & Shipstar.) So are Gregory Benford (idem), David Brin, Stephen Baxter and Charles Sheffield. Or if it has to scratch diamond, Greg Egan. And if you want huge vistas in doorstoppers fat enough for a bank vault, there is always Peter F. Hamilton...

There is 'classic' hard SF enough. There is just more of the rest than there used to be.
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