I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.
Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.
It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
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