Dystopian ≠ Realistic

Why I won’t ride that bandwagon

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I grew up reading science fiction. Old science fiction. Wells. Verne. Asimov. Heinlein. Clark.

Were those guys great writers? Not on your life. Not a one of them could hold a candle to David Brin, C.D. Cherryh, Dan Simmons, or Octavia Butler.

But in those days, we didn’t ask great craft of science fiction writers. What we…