I read and very much enjoyed The Diamond Age. What work(s) by Neal Stephenson should I read next? [more inside]
posted by alms on May 5, 2009 - 38 answers

What would be the conditions required on the moon of a gas giant to support Earth life? [more inside]
posted by Electrius on Jan 12, 2009 - 17 answers

Help me find this short story about Edgar Rice Burroughs in hell. [more inside]
posted by overglow on Jun 3, 2008 - 4 answers

Who to read besides Coupland, Stephenson, Gibson, and Sterling? [more inside]
posted by humannaire on Apr 13, 2008 - 43 answers

I just found out that the dystopian/futuristic movie Children of Men is based on a novel by P.D. James. It made me think of the excellent short story The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. It made me wonder: are other examples of mainstream authors experimenting with speculative fiction? [more inside]
posted by nanojath on Apr 22, 2007 - 36 answers

I want to talk with people about potential future trends as background research for near-future speculative fiction. Where wouldn't this be chatfilter? [more inside]
posted by Alterscape on Oct 4, 2006 - 7 answers

I recently took a college course in Sci-fi and Fantasy (awesome course) and it really opened up a desire to read some of the recent speculative fiction that I've been missing. (more inside) [more inside]
posted by Slimemonster on Aug 31, 2006 - 28 answers

Can anyone recommend some very very good speculative fiction books that I can read that are maybe along the lines of the Parable books by Octavia Butler (They don't have to deal with apocalypse though). Reading those was just bliss for me and I look forward to finding similar novels.
posted by Slimemonster on Mar 30, 2004 - 7 answers