Programmer Science Fiction - by Sam T. Oates
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My case for a new sub-genre
Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties (1878), Alfred Wordsworth Thompson What is the most interesting thing happening in fantasy and science fiction right now? It’s not as though there aren’t authors doing interesting things. Ken Liu has a new novel out about AI and art, we’ll probably see the Viking metaphysics book from Ada Palmer soon, ditto with Alecto the Ninth, and we just got another entry in the micro-genre of time-travel romances. And of course there are all sorts of indie projects smoldering away on here (can I interest you in a short story about cyclical history, steppe…
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