Yup. The classics. I like science fiction as much for its view of what the past was, as what the future could be. The glorious adventures of the 50s... the 'realistic' sixties and weird seventies... the depressing, psychological 80s and the new, close frontier 90s. Not sure what the defining theme of this decade will be. Seems to be a lot of blue-collar science fiction and way too much drivelling fantasy. I love fantasy, don't get me wrong, but nobody does it right.
Everything else...Shannara, Xanth, Amber...seemed to be either trying too hard to imitate LotR (and getting it wrong) or going off into some other realm where I would not follow. I quit trying after college.
I'm guessing it'll be along the lines of "post-humanism" ie, downloading the human consciousness into a variety of objects. I read a "Best of" compilation of short stories and this was a recurring theme. One was the ruminations of someone who had downloaded himself into a couch and was contempling 'what next.' Another had a character who was just back from being downloaded into a flock of seagulls. Strange.