It was the year 30,000: How to kill interest

Though my book exists in the realm of science fiction, I’m actually a realist. When a book sets itself up in a future so far advanced that it seems unreal, I’ve already set the book down and moved on. Unless you are an absolute visionary, and I assure you – that is rare, then you simply aren’t going to do it justice. Picking a setting that would, in reality, have almost no correlation to the world we live in today makes for an impossible task. If Arthur C. Clarke and William Gibson can’t pull...