Is it just me, or does the volume of high quality non-fiction content written every year greatly exceed the volume of fiction content? Would love to stumble across some new sci-fi fiction series, but always find myself going back to my favorites (Dune, anything Asimov, etc)
Have you tried Ted Chiang or William Gibson’s The Jackpot trilogy
Could it be our definition of sci-fi has shifted the possibility space of creating or writing sci-fi? (Literally throwing this into thin air not because I can support any side of any “argument”)
different mediums for scifi to express itself now movie tv series video games building a tech company
Have you read any of Peter F Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds (pushing ice is a fun stand alone book), or James S. A. Corey
Ada Palmer, Vernor Vinge, Ann Leickie are all great sci-fi reads and wrote in this century (my fav vinge books in the 90s tho).
I wonder if this holds when you zoom out. What is considered great non-fiction today may not be so in five years.
Shogun by James Clavell. Period history fiction in Japan early days of European discover. My favourite fiction book.
Lindsey Ellis s new series was fun Broadly I agree though
Most people don't get past elementary school's 'write what you know'. We just get to know more. Fiction is harder.