So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
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.
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.