I set out to write science fiction partly for the liberated literary territory it afforded, and for the laboratory of ideas it provided to try to imagine better futures (usually by putting mirrors up to see the worst aspects of the present).
Some scholars of literature claim that a book is really that virtual place your mind goes to when you are reading. It is a conceptual state of imagination that one might call “literature space.”
WRITING IT TOGETHER // This letter is 20% about IP today. A new blockchain platform, Incention, is making IP communal. Fan fiction is a huge industry, but hard to monetize. Now, creators can contribute to a franchise and get paid. The writer-director of Blade, David S Goyer is using it to launch a new sci-fi concept “Emergence,” about a universe “w... See more