Charlie Stross: "The High Frontier, Redux"
Sunday 17 June 2007 at 3:55 pm SF Writer Charlie Stross says that he faces problems "in trying to write believable science fiction about space colonization". He says that "interstellar travel for human beings is near-as-dammit a non-starter". Even where the solar system is concerned, he says, "Bluntly, we're not going to get there by rocket ship". And he's not the only one: Bruce Sterling seems to think it's more fantasy than science fiction as well.Damn, that's one helluva downer. I may never be able to enjoy science fiction movies or books ever again, because the believability factor just went out the window; I suppose I always knew, but hearing the cold hard numbers from SF writers is not something I'll as easily forget or ignore as my own rough inarticulate guesses.
I'm gonna go cry for our progeny-never-to-be now.
