Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.
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Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.
I love feeling like I'm 'on the pulse' of things. Nothing more satisfying, more valued, more exciting as a writer. Because shaping pop culture really means that you're saying something that a lot of people want to hear.
Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
I've always had an interest in the fashion side of pop culture.
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.
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