Charles Stross

The Firedoglake book forum discussed the most recent Merchant Princes novel by Charles Stross yesterday via email with Stross attending and very famous economist Paul Krugman moderating.

I am sick with envy.

In spite of this, I am going to post Krugman's neat quote on science fiction.

...What drew me to science fiction, more than four decades ago – before I got into economics, and in fact part of the reason I went into economics – was a certain kind of possibility: the creation of fictional w...