If science fiction is no longer a viable form, it is because the
humanist assumptions that underpinned it are no longer credible even as
fictions. The hybrid type of writing that has evolved in recent years is
symptomatic. "Slipstream", "cyberpunk" and "new weird" blend together
influences as diverse as Arthur Machen and Mikhail Bulgakov, Charles
Williams and William S Burroughs. What these styles of writing have in
common is an absence of politics. No world-changing project features in
any of them.
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