[NEWS] Five sci-fi links: Gunn, Williams, KSR, cyberpunk, Chabon on Stewart

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• In an interview with Mark Alpert at Scientific American, golden age SF author James Gunn argues that science fiction still has the potential to save the world.


• At Universe Today, writer Matt Williams talks about how practising science journalism helped him become a better writer of science fiction.


• Wired, noting the release of the new Kim Stanley Robinson novel Red Moon, makes the case for his importance as a writer.


• Paul Walker-Emig at The Guardian makes the case that cyberpunk is full of tropes and aesthetics that are decades old, that the subgenre needs desperately to reinvent itself.


• Michael Chabon, writer on the new Picard series, enthuses about the joys of working with Patrick Stewart.

Comments

[dewline]

I have a sense that whatever we end up seeing in the Picard Project is probably not what either the novels of the last few years or the STO material will have led fans to expect. Which could be a very good thing, and will still lead to more fandom schisms no matter how good the show is.