I have a blog piece about technology and science fiction up at Tor.com, my first appearance, I think, on that website.
Go read the rest of it here.
By the way, my email troubles are all sorted now, if you've been getting any bouncing messages from me in the recent past.
'...science fiction is both an epiphenomenon and a response to the accelerating rate of technological advancement. When Mary Shelley wroteFrankenstein, the scientific revolution of the Enlightenment had already taken steps towards radically revising our understanding of how the universe works. Her most famous novel was partly inspired by experiments in which dead tissue appeared to be reanimated—to be galvanised—into unholy life by the application of an electric current. It’s rightly known as the first science fiction novel because it’s a response to both the threat and the promise of such experiments.'
Go read the rest of it here.
By the way, my email troubles are all sorted now, if you've been getting any bouncing messages from me in the recent past.
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