Saturday, 1st of May, 2004

When Charlie Stross’s first short story collection, Toast and other rusted futures, came out around 2001, he wrote an introduction for it called “After the future imploded”, in which he suggested that in a sense science fiction is a fool’s game because the future is catching up with us so fast (or is it us who are catching up with the future?)

This weekend Charlie is guest of honour at plotka.con in Newbury, England. If only it were a month & a bit later! Cory Doctorow is there on Saturday, interviewing Charlie.
The reason I write, though, is to draw your attention to Charlie’s new-and-improved look at sf, the present, and the future: “The future bites”, which he wrote for plotka.con’s program book. Something tells me this bloke knows what he’s talking about.

Oh and Cory links to the same article over at boingboing, calling it a “corker”. So it must be worth a gander, eh?

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