As for sci-fi: Not exactly the same thing, but I'm getting irritated with science fiction that's very close to the modern age. I'm starting to care less about nanites and cloning and shit like that and wish for the days of speculative fiction, when ideas like a submarine or invaders from Mars were new and fresh.
Yeah, I find it really depends on the writer these days.
Some seem to think "hi, here's some clones - there may be a moral dilemma about their right to live later" is enough - others actually still have some originality with their ideas.
I read two great short stories there the other day.
one was on the effect of a machine which could prove the existence of Jesus on an ex-alcoholic scientist who'd been saved by religion.
The other was on our obsession with upgrading tech pointlessly (called "the dish ran away with the spoon...").
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As for sci-fi: Not exactly the same thing, but I'm getting irritated with science fiction that's very close to the modern age. I'm starting to care less about nanites and cloning and shit like that and wish for the days of speculative fiction, when ideas like a submarine or invaders from Mars were new and fresh.
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Some seem to think "hi, here's some clones - there may be a moral dilemma about their right to live later" is enough - others actually still have some originality with their ideas.
I read two great short stories there the other day.
one was on the effect of a machine which could prove the existence of Jesus on an ex-alcoholic scientist who'd been saved by religion.
The other was on our obsession with upgrading tech pointlessly (called "the dish ran away with the spoon...").
Both were very cool & very fresh feeling.
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