Ian R. MacLeod’s Eight Problems in Writing Fiction About the Future

*I’m paraphrasing his remarks from a web livestream, which is pretty

much a departure in itself, and rather backs up his radical assertions here.

*From the “Thrilling Wonder Stories” architecture-fiction event

http://stream.aaschool.ac.uk/index.php

Ian R. MacLeod’s Eight Problems in Writing Fiction About the Future

1. Future not dominated by Western culture and its archaic Western concepts of “futurity”

2. Future subjects of fiction not “people” as we know human beings today

3. Space travel not what