<![CDATA[io9: Brian Francis Slattery]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Brian Francis Slattery]]> http://io9.com/tag/brian francis slattery http://io9.com/tag/brian francis slattery <![CDATA[No, science fiction novelists are not really predicting the future]]> There's a curiously wide-eyed article from the New York Times, about some recent science fiction novels that have uncannily come true, which is making the rounds online. Are science fiction novelists really predicting the future after all? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5837403&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Why doesn't more fantasy take place in the future?]]> It used to be, science fiction took place in the future and fantasy in the past. But lately, more science fiction takes place in the past. So we can't help wondering whether there'll be more fantasy set in the future. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5671816&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[So what comes next after steampunk and zombies?]]> Our imaginations are caught between two unstoppable empires: the retrofuturistic world of steampunk, and the shambling hordes of zombies. The only thing more popular than a steampunk world or a zombie world is steampunk with zombies. But what's next? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5555997&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Novels That Put The Fun Back Into The Post-Apocalypse]]> A new literary sub-genre is being born today, while you nap at your desk. It features larger-than-life, and often comical, characters having bizarro adventures after the end of the world. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5100152&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[We're All Slaves Of History, In Sprawling Dystopian Novel]]> What would the United States look like after the collapse of everything? The answer isn't a zombie-strewn wasteland or a sudden revival of punk-rock fashions, but rather something more like a flashback to the mid-19th century. The frontier spirit, small communities banding together, roaming Indian tribes... and huge masses of the population living in slavery. Brian Francis Slattery's dystopian second novel, Liberation has many brilliant ideas, but its depiction of a 21st century revival of slavery is really what burns it into your memory. More »
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