Which settings/themes would you most like to see more in literature?
Cyberpunk (in actually good books)
How technology is changing the human condition
zombie apocalypse]/spoiler]
Just once done well. I liked it before it was cool and I just feel so bad that everybody got sick of it before we got some GOOD stuff out of it.
my fetish
something written at a higher level than literotica/amazon ebook standards anyway.
Not that they're that bad but I want to fap and have nice prose as well
Religion in the modern world.
>>7509725
Also this
>>7509716
so did that guy die after
>>7509739
this, the same goes with films
>>7509716
What am I looking at?
>>7510041
Elephant's foot. A giant blob of radiation from the Chernobyl incident.
>>7509716
historical fiction, melding established events with fictional events/peoples/objects
very explicitly NOT fantasy and NOT alt-history
>>7510084
Have you read any Mary Renault? She does it very well. Also, Louis L'Amour's The Walking Drum is pretty great.
>>7510095
thanks for the recommendations, the walking drum looks good
>>7509716
Science-fiction used for something other than space wars and STEM-autist circlejerks of realism and accuracy.
>>7510103
This. Realism and lack of imagination is killing the genre. Nothing as imaginative as Dune has been made in recent years (that I am aware of), and even if there was it would be shat all over for being unrealistic.
>>7510103
What sorts of things would you like to see instead, anon?
I don't have a strong opinion on the realism and accuracy (except for a kind of empty, reactionary iconoclasm).
But I do feel like science fiction is too wedded to space travel and human colonisation of space. I'd love to see some science fiction that doesn't take ceaseless 'progress', 'growth' and other optimistic extrapolations for granted... but also doesn't instantly go to the catastrophic, dystopian opposite as the only alternative.
>>7509725
I read Wind-Up Girl in 2009 when I was still a literature pleb but remember really enjoying it. It does well what I like most about cyberpunk - science fiction, but in a version of reality we still recognise.
I have no memory of whether or not it was actually 'good' though, has anybody else read it?
