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more about #jowalton more comments → TotalFanGirl: I find cosy catastrophes much more disturbing to read/view than the expolsion driven end of the world stuff that has been coming out lately. It's eas... more » Pittsburghmuggle: Any apocalyptic fiction in which the world ends up quite livable falls in this category like when the power grid keeps chugging far longer than it oug... more » Chip Overclock: I'd put P. D. James' CHILDREN OF MEN in this category. Humanity ends not with a bang but a whimper, by virtue of nearly everyone being rendered steril... more » RandomFrequentFlierDent: I always assumed the characters in John Wyndham's novels were so relaxed due to a mild buzz they all had going. I'm sure it's just the time period it'... more » Wyldemusick: Aha! But in the semi-distant future of my Analog story "Empty Barrels" they not only drink coffee, but the central characters of the story grow their ... more » Grey_Area: I'm more of a teapunk kinda guy myself. "Bud noticed they we're all making rather a big deal about the tea." #annemccaffrey more » YoungWilliam: With the gfi vs tea bit, it might be that they're making a split between the product and the process? After all, I've seen many a thing marketed as 't... more » m_faustus: Holy flipping crap! Where did the Too Much Coffee Man image come from? And I know that it isn't far future, but in one of the Callahan's Saloon nove... more » Dunny0: In the future, coffee will come in cans and be carbonated. #annemccaffrey more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: The characters in my future stories drink Crimson Bovine... #annemccaffrey more » Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!: I'm already imagining wars that might have been fought over coffee had it been introduced to Europe before the middle ages. #annemccaffrey more » Slightly Bigger Than Wee Jock But Not So Big as Middle-Sized Jock Jock: Not SF but fantasy - The Seanchan in Robert Jordan's Never-f**ing-ending Wheel of Time series drink "kaff," IIRC. #annemccaffrey more » icelight: The Mote books had coffee. Even a (very) minor subplot around Jamaica Blue Mountain, in theory the exclusive property of Imperial family. #annemccaffrey more » tetracycloide: in the future all coffee will be freeze dried or pre-ground and a small, underground, guerrilla movement of growers that produce only shade grown bean... more » ManchuCandidate: In The Forever War, the common theme among the different time periods was bitching about the quality of the coffee/soya/ersatz coffee. #annemccaffrey more » -
#cosycatastrophe
British Books Offer A "Cosy" Antidote To Apocalyptic Horror. Let's Be Civilized, Shall We?
Looking for an alternative to the horrific scenarios of 2012 and The Road? Try the "cosy catastrophe" genre, the Guardian suggests: Stories like Day Of The Triffids and The World In Winter feature a less violent version of the end. More » -
#bookvortex
Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
When science fiction books depict people living in the distant future, where's the coffee? Tor.Com's Jo Walton wants to know. She lists some of the hilarious words authors use instead of coffee, including Anne McCaffrey's "klah" and Steven Brust's "klava." More » -
#worldcon
Can You Still Write Science Fiction Set In The Future?
The future is over! It's no longer possible to write about the future, because the Singularity will definitely happen in twenty years. We'll have artificial intelligence, and the meaning of humanity will be transformed. Is this idea hindering science fiction?
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#readthisinstead
"Tooth And Claw" Proves That Dragons Trump Zombies
Everybody thinks that Pride And Prejudice And Zombies is a nifty new mash-up invention. But the the original monster mash-up book was Jo Walton's Tooth and Claw, a 19th century novel of manners, with dragon protagonists. More »
