Short Story Watch: "The Transmissions" by John Bonello
Cities under domes: The future of our existence? By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** A friend has recently shared this article as a reminder (from a couple of years ago). In it, US speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson is mentioned, calling, at the time (in 2012), for less dystopias and more of the optimistic futuristic in science fiction, addressing the call to "SF authors" as such. I don't think the call by Stephenson projected a truly representative characterisation of the huge and diverse population of SF authors (and their equally, if not more, diverse set of works). But I did talk in a critical way about there being a dystopia bandwagon of sorts earlier on myself, so this may be worth reflecting on. The trend of dystopia mania is most visible, ironically, outside the SF realm, when authors who rather belong to mainstream literature choose to go down this road -- think Cormac ...