A poll for science fiction masses

[kinzel]

As someone who went to Clarion West thirty five years ago I'm participating in this years Clarion West Write-a-Thon ... see my page at: http://www.clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/SteveMiller

alas, my stated goal is to write a new near-future science fiction story and now it turns out that the phrase "near future" creates different expectations for different people. So, I need help figuring out what's near future. I also hear that all near future sf "should be mundane" but ... I dunno.

What's your take:

[Poll #1209566]

Comments

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

I'd say proper topics for near-future science fiction can vary almost as widely as topics for any other science fiction. The restriction is simply that there be some reasonable way for the situation to have been reached from where we are now. Fairies, elves, gnomes, etc would be okay if some at least sort of reality/science-based explanation was provided as to where they came from. Otherwise it would be near-future fantasy rather than science fiction.