Recommendations for speculative dystopian scifi books with good ideas (bit like Gibson's)
This really is the worst timeline.
Until a few years ago it felt like things were bad, but it was predictably bad. Books, films and tv series gave us a glimpse of what might come in the near future, and we kept pointing to prior art. "This is just like Black Mirror".
I've been looking around and feeling like the amount of progress in the past few years in mass data collection and processing, combined with more aggressively applied AI techniques have left speculative dystopia genre a bit behind. I can't see good ideas that predict where we will end up in the next 10 or 20 years.
I'm looking for recommendations for good speculative and dystopian science fiction. I say like William Gibson because his body of work in the 80s both shaped and predicted the 90s and 2000s.
Posted Aug 12, 2019, 2:45 PM UTC