We’re also well into the Fourth Generation of science fiction: the genre has been born, passed through adolescence, into adulthood, and is moving into a post-scarcity period of incredible richness and diversity. That impacts on everything in our field, from the diversity of the people who write science fiction to whom and about what they choose to write. We’ve also long since accepted that science fiction writers aren’t back-room nostrodamusses reading tealeaves and predicting the future. They’re people using science fiction as a tool to interrogate and extrapolate from our present for what we
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