EPISODE · Jan 16, 2012
Podcast: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future
from Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · host Cory Doctorow
Here’s a podcast of my last Locus column, A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future: Science fiction writers and fans are prone to lauding the predictive value of the genre, prompting weird questions like ‘‘How can you write science fiction today? Aren’t you worried that real science will overtake your novel before it’s published?’’ This... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/01/16/podcast-a-vocabulary-for-speaking-about-the-future/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>
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Here’s a podcast of my last Locus column, A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future: Science fiction writers and fans are prone to lauding the predictive value of the genre, prompting weird questions like ‘‘How can you write science fiction today? Aren’t you worried that real science will overtake your novel before it’s published?’’ This... more
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