Comments on: Peter Thiel Is Wrong About the Future

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:36:17 +0000

Chris C: “And nowadays, science fiction is dominated by politically-correct leftists and victim-mongering, so there are far fewer optimistic stories than in the 50s and 60s”

That wasn’t some accident or a general cultural malaise. It was an actual conspiracy to take over science fiction and to exclude anyone not writing either romance novels in space or leftist political tracts. Vox Day posts on this pretty consistently.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 06:29:02 +0000

Chris C.: Larry Niven still writes the good stuff. Red Tide just came out. The Goliath Stone was excellent.

By: Chris C.

Chris C. — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 01:09:05 +0000

And nowadays, science fiction is dominated by politically-correct leftists and victim-mongering, so there are far fewer optimistic stories than in the 50′s and 60′s, when I began reading SF. Too many such contemporary books are just not fun to read for me. I want to be entertained, not lectured.

By: Toddy Cat

Toddy Cat — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 22:05:55 +0000

I lived through this transition, and it was actually pretty abrupt — no more than a few years, maybe less than that. I was fairly young, but I noticed it at the time. The country that landed on the Moon in 1969 was very different from the one that had started out in 1961. I’d like to blame hippies (of course), but they were an effect, not a cause.