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

Re: My thoughts

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

I never really understood that, seems to me if we can mine metal in deep space we ought to be able to dig into the mantle and mine that.

Space is a much more benign environment, though, really, there's no rain, sleet, hail, snow, sudden vicious thermal gradients, the solar wind has a lot less mass and force and pressure than Earth's atmosphere at sea level involves moving around, there's no corrosive salt air, no free oxygen looking for atoms an molecules to glom onto and oxidize, etc.