![]() I devoured stories of fearless heroes in space exploring new worlds, first contact with alien races, mindbending new technologies that seemed like magic, about transcending our mortal flesh and becoming part of a universal, transcendental whole, stories that didn’t just talk about technology but about the human condition. He was happy to hand novels off to me, and his private library beat the hell out of our public one. This guy had a basement full of science fiction books written from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, up until the cyberpunk era kicked off in the 1980s. As a kid I was a massive science fiction fan, and my dad was friends with a guy who was also hugely into science fiction. He is of course The Superhero, and he lives in the genre he founded, but he also lives in a type of optimistic science fiction genre that’s downright extinct nowadays. But why? I think it’s in part because of the type of genre he embodies.
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