We may have the necessities of life, but that’s never been enough for us as a species. We are forever pushing at the boundaries, never quite convinced that we’ve got what we need to live as we want… But I do want to know what we’ll do when we get what it is we think we want, and what the ripple effects will be, and what we’ll decide to want next.
At Strange Horizons, authors Stephanie Saulter and Ian McDonald discuss the current role of energy, its technology and effects on people, in science fiction.