Possible Responses to Overly Optimistic Science Fiction Predictions

1. "Those silly authors, thinking we'd colonize the moon by 1996!"
2. "What has gone wrong, that we have not fulfilled these expectations?"

The Qualifications for Science Fiction

What happens if a scifi writer is a little too accurate? Is he drummed out of the fiction industry? Does he have to write for James Bond movies?

Science Fiction Review

Quick! Look through your scifi collection to find out which authors predicted AI would be used to make current and former presidents argue. Those are the only ones worth reading.

The Best Science Fiction Predicts Future Social Trends

And that's why I'm telling you right now that people will say "Bonanza!" as sort of a slang thing. If not, that's how we'll know humanity took the wrong path. Perhaps we should reset this world to zero.

A Better Bet

Write scifi stories about a future where people love reading old scifi stories. Nobody will ever know if you're wrong.

The Problem With Post-Nuclear Apocalyptic Fiction

Suppose you're writing in, say, 1959, to pick a random year. If a nuclear exchange between the US and USSR fails to occur, your understanding of politics and indeed humanity looks pretty poor. If it does happen, nobody will read your book after it. What a terrible bet.

Industry Trends

The word that will define the coming year in speculative fiction is "contumely." Adjust your plans accordingly.