Authors of science fiction are often graded on the accuracy of their predictions. Gibson’s Neuromancer is praised for its prescience, and popular culture is littered with comparisons of contemporary regimes to the government of 1984. But is this the right measure of their success? Hardly. Descriptive accuracy is the province of journalism. Books like 1984 and Brave New World are great not […]
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Prediction v. Prescription in Dystopian Science Fiction [Guest Post]
2013-10-09 · by Yaron Glazer ·
Filed Under: Adult Fiction, Author Posts, Blog Post, Science Fiction - Adult · Tagged: Brave New World, dystopian fiction, science-fiction, Staticisity, Yaron Glazer