Yes, there are plenty of non-fiction writers aroudn writing useful things, but genuinely prophetic fiction (and poetry) is much harder to find. I imagine it is out there, on the margins. I've not found it myself yet, but am always hunting.
Yes, there are plenty of non-fiction writers aroudn writing useful things, but genuinely prophetic fiction (and poetry) is much harder to find. I imagine it is out there, on the margins. I've not found it myself yet, but am always hunting.
Octavia Butler's duology The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents is becoming more scarily prophetic by the day, but I'm hoping that's not the final future that awaits us.
There is also a kind of weird novel out there called The Ministry for the Future, which talks about global/institutional efforts to reverse climate change. I wasn't really sure what to make of it. It's by a guy called Kim Stanley Robinson and it's not written in a particularly compelling style, but the ideas were mostly new to me and are based on real concepts that exist in the real world. And unlike most of these books, it ended on a fairly optimistic note.
Yes, there are plenty of non-fiction writers aroudn writing useful things, but genuinely prophetic fiction (and poetry) is much harder to find. I imagine it is out there, on the margins. I've not found it myself yet, but am always hunting.
The lack of that kind of literary work probably says a lot about our current state of affairs.
Octavia Butler's duology The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents is becoming more scarily prophetic by the day, but I'm hoping that's not the final future that awaits us.
There is also a kind of weird novel out there called The Ministry for the Future, which talks about global/institutional efforts to reverse climate change. I wasn't really sure what to make of it. It's by a guy called Kim Stanley Robinson and it's not written in a particularly compelling style, but the ideas were mostly new to me and are based on real concepts that exist in the real world. And unlike most of these books, it ended on a fairly optimistic note.