FutureTense

SciFi.com has an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson on his latest novel, Forty Signs of Rain.

[Near-future SF is] a growing test of our ability to come to grips with the present. When everything is morphing before our eyes, can we still write about the shape of things to come? It’s an open question.

KSR has been my hero since 1987 when I went in to a room at Readercon for what I thought would be a run-of-the-mill reading and came out with my head full of “post modern” this and “deconstructual” that. [futurismic]