near-future

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Wrongly-accused inmate Jensen Ames participates in the near-future reality TV show known as The Death Race, where convicts drive armed, armored cars to win their freedom.

DVD REVIEW: Death Race, Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson 2009

As I try to lead by example with Shine, I decided that I not only wanted near-future, optimistic SF in it, but that I would greatly prefer that the stories would have settings, characters and viewpoints from all over the world (not just from a western and/or Anglophone PoV) as well.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jetse de Vries 2009

Holly Phillips: Besides the sheer delight of the imaginative exercise, I think -- especially with near-future SF -- there's a real value to climbing out of the little box of our present and looking at a wider view.

April 2010 2010

Whenever I read or hear arguments about the feminization of this or that I'm reminded of Edmund Cooper's short SF novel FIVE TO TWELVE (1968), set in a (then) near-future England when women outnumber men by that ratio.

Is Science Fiction Becoming 'Feminized'? 2009

Into this breach stepped author and editor Jetse de Vries, who broadcast his intent to publish an SF anthology that was not only optimistic but also near-future.

April 2010 2010

Like most sf readers, there are certain areas of the sprawling sf umbrella which do not particularly appeal to me, such as military sf, near-future dismal fiction, or techno-thrillers.

MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010

The story follows Matt Fuller, a down-on-his-luck lab assistant at a near-future MIT.

REVIEW: The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman 2010

He's also ed-in-chief of near-future sf webzine Futurismic, a learning fictioneer and poet, a reviewer of books, music and concerts, a cack-handed third guitarist for a fuzz-rock band, and in need of a proper haircut.

MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010

Into this breach stepped author and editor Jetse de Vries, who broadcast his intent to publish an SF anthology that was not only optimistic but also near-future.

[GUEST REVIEW] Athena Andreadis Reviews Shine: An Anthology of Near-Future Optimistic Science Fiction, edited by Jetse de Vries 2010

Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 paints a completely believable near-future against which he sets his story of doomed lovers.

MIND MELD: The Most Intelligent Films of Science Fiction 2009