Science fiction and fantasy blog post notes
At a recent talk, I mentioned reading science fiction for entertainment, as well as for perspective on how the future might come out; and I was asked for a reading list. This isn’t a list of books; that’s on my todo list. Meantime, here’s a list of significant authors, and some other recommendations and relevant references.
NASA has a ‘foresighting’ panel which includes science fiction authors. Report : https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/nasa-futures-public-report-may-2023-anonymous-tagged.pdf
Science Fiction author list
Charles Stross blogs at https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
John Scalzi blogs at https://whatever.scalzi.com/
Kim Stanley Robinson on ‘Ministry for the Future’ https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/24497348-ministry-still-riding-the-heat-wave
Jo Walton
Alistair Reynolds
Richard Morgan
Iain Banks (aka Iain M Banks)
Vernor Vinge
Neal Stephenson
William Gibson
Ann Leckie
Ursula Le Guin
Fantasy author list
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
Marc Andreesen posted his SF author list in 2007, before Andreessen Horowitz was founded. Some of the authors listed above were new to me then.
References
Tim Bray on William Gibson on AR goggles in 1993 https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/02/02/Vision-1993
Charlie Stross https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2098599-six-science-fiction-novels-you-should-be-reading
https://www.pwc.com.au/digitalpulse/science-fiction-explore-business-innovation.html
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