The stories we tell ourselves can help us understand, and maybe even adapt, to this new world. But the dour dystopias and escapist fantasies of our current science fiction diet just won’t do. We need something new: a form of science fiction that tackles the radical changes of our pressing and strange reality.
Claire L. Evans writes for the Guardian on the need for a new kind of science fiction, one that looks within at human civilization and its unique role on the planet.