Post #3251972
2026-06-10 09:34 UTC
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@cstross@wandering.shop 2026-06-10 10:03
@gerikson@awful.systems @techtakes Technical nit-pick: "American hard science fiction space opera like Timelike Infinity is also influential"— Timelike Infinity was written by Steven Baxter who is *very* English indeed. Best contextualized as mid-period Interzone generation hitting its imperial phase.
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@scotclose@indieweb.social 2026-06-10 15:48
@gerikson@awful.systems @BlueMonday1984@awful.systems I was surprised not to see emeritus CS prof Rudy Rucker (from my alma mater SJSU).
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@blakestacey@awful.systems 2026-06-10 20:03
Viral: “read a second book” Spiral: “read a second Borges story” The author of “Death and the Compass” and “Emma Zunz” is unrecognizable from the description there.
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-06-12 04:19
So there are a bunch of people on this forum more literary and authorial than I and I welcome any of them to correct me on this, but I’m skeptical of the whole project here of seeking to identify or define a new subgenre that is pushing speculative fiction as a whole forward. It’s always seemed to me like the real creative energy behind this kind of movement doesn’t originate from a defined subgenre as much as from a community of authors in conversation with each other. The identification and labeling comes afterwards as outsiders try to talk about it. In that sense, I don’t think he’s actually identifying that kind of community. Just naming a bunch of writers he likes, to the point of excluding several who he admits would be in this kind of community as defined but he just doesn’t like as much.