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Thursday, April 25, 2013

New Dark Age

Yesterday, I spent the day on the I-pad looking for a book to read on my book app. I have read just about all the classics I care to read right now and went looking for some new Sci-Fi to pass the time with. The first tragedy was that the category was broken down into Sci-Fi Fantasy. Second tragedy, It took eight pages before I hit the first Sci-FI book which was Ender's Game. I read that in High school.

Where are the Asimov's, the Vern's? Where are the Sci-Fi writers that are going to inspire the next generation of scientists? This could explain why NASA is spending its time on Climate change instead of real science. There has been no new science fiction to inspire the egg-heads coming out of college today. Hollywood still makes Sci-Fi movies, but most are based off of old Sci-Fi. Are we headed to a new dark age? Where people are thinking more of Vampires and Zombies instead of the stars?

posted by davis14633 at 07:41

1 Comments:

Blogger The Mad Builder of Periwinkle said...

New talent in pure sci fi is sadly seemingly hard to find. Baen Books (www.baen.com) does a fairly good job at trying to promote new talent. But beyond them it seems you've got to look to smaller independent publishers (and these are rarely available on Kindle / iBook right now). But even even in the small independent publishing market they have alot of vampires and zombie stuff right now. Don't get me wrong, I dig a good post apocalyptic zombie story...but geez...talk about WAY over-saturation!

I have to believe the new Asimov or Haldeman or Heinlein is out there...but there is just SO MUCH content out there you can hardly see them...a pearl floating in the ocean so to speak. How do you find the new good writers?

Something like this might be a good start:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/4170-the-sword-and-laser

Also, I have heard John Scalzi is good, but haven't actually read anything yet.

08:45  

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