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

[jryson.livejournal.com]

"Mundane" and "near future" need not be the same.

The non-mundane can happen any time.

Space habitats, populated by personality types like who settled America and Australia, would produce some very interesting societies; you don't need aliens.

Gated communities right here on Earth could produce strange societies. So could virtual reality communities(extensions of Second Life, etc.).

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

Space habits aren't going to be around within five years, until there are sudden drastic social and political and economic changes, and even then, I wouldnn't expect to see one populated from e.g. Australia within the next five or ten or fifteen or even 20 years....

And Australians can be an mundane and boring as anyone else!