Comments on: A Bit of a Generation Gap http://futurismic.com/2008/11/14/a-bit-of-a-generation-gap/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dave http://futurismic.com/2008/11/14/a-bit-of-a-generation-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-16925 Dave Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:03:12 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=4749#comment-16925 Well, one example that gets bandied about a lot is the Singularitarian ideology and fictional milieu. Not that it's new (just about every Vernor Vinge story is about it), but it has a lot of prominence right now. Or, if you think that "steampunk" and "space opera" are past, what do you think about the best-of-breed examples of those classes? Do you think the Difference Engine is antique now? (I mean, more antique?) Scratch that, here's the better question: hasn't there been a big surge of space opera, over the past say decade or so? The Vinge novels from the '90s, Iain Banks over the last 20 years, Ken MacLeod? What is the ideology of the "new" space opera? Well, one example that gets bandied about a lot is the Singularitarian ideology and fictional milieu. Not that it’s new (just about every Vernor Vinge story is about it), but it has a lot of prominence right now.

Or, if you think that “steampunk” and “space opera” are past, what do you think about the best-of-breed examples of those classes? Do you think the Difference Engine is antique now? (I mean, more antique?)

Scratch that, here’s the better question: hasn’t there been a big surge of space opera, over the past say decade or so? The Vinge novels from the ’90s, Iain Banks over the last 20 years, Ken MacLeod? What is the ideology of the “new” space opera?

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