speculation on speculation

[adelaidesean]

This is the question:

"As non-genre readers become more comfortable with science fictional ideas, where do you see science fiction, in written form, going in the future?"

What's the answer? Maybe there isn't one. Find out more by following the link to the latest SF Signal Mind Meld, where I get to fire off an opinion in company much better than I deserve (including Lou Anders, Elizabeth Bear, Paul Di Filippo, Jay Lake, Chris Roberson, Jeff VanderMeer, Liz Williams, and more).

While I've got my serious hat on, today's blast from the past is: "If That High World", one of the few vocal pieces I wrote, for baritone with piano accompaniment, based on lyrics by Lord George Byron.

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Listening to: Thom Brennan - A View Of Creation

Comments

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

As in Lord Byron? 'cause he wrote a poem called that.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

That's him. Apparently my brain thinks he and I are on a first-name basis today.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

So are you "mad, bad and dangerous to know"?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I wish. My teenage nickname, "Lad", which has stuck in a certain demographic even today, is purely ironic. :-)

[millisynth.livejournal.com]

The future?
Beautifully timed... as this showed up on the Net today...


(http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/10/23/funny-pictures-thats-weird-this-doesnt-look-like-the-future/)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that. Brilliant!