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

Near Future? Aren't we living in the 1990's near future?

[bookmobiler.livejournal.com]

Forget mundane. Its a label and any SF should be about ignoring labels.

Near SF is something with recognizable roots in the present. Normally at least some of the characters will have been born at or around the present. After that all bets are off.

At the last near future SF should age gracefully.