The Promised Land
So, after the wonderful rambling of Monday and before my attempted smatterings of fiction are posted on Friday, it’s time to look at some real good futuristic Fiction.
And fortunately for us, some of the best examples are Creative Commons Licensed. Yay for CC, which will probably be riffed on by me further on down the track.
Anyhow, go Google (or Bing up, if you swing that way) up Makers by Cory Doctorow and Accelerando by Charlie Stross. No links for you because this is an exercise in the permanency of the web. URLs come and go, but names are forever.
Then read. The best futurist parts are really the first parts of both stories, after that Doctorow goes off on his Disney fetish and Stross just starts skipping across the pond of time and multiple singularities till all are one. They’re still good stories, but where they both start is awesome. It’s just a small shame that Accelerando is licensed No-Deriv cause there’s an awesome CC novel sitting somewhere in a crossover setting of the two.
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