I wonder if science fiction has a future. I don't meet many kids interested in science fiction anymore.
many kids are too busy getting fat not exercising and sitting on their fat a**es in front of whatever gadget is the current thing.........
My 11 year old daughter is interested in SF and she reads it all the time.
She can't stand Star Trek, though.
They are growing up in a world that would have been a science fiction world when I was akid.
20 years ago or earlier, it was easy to imagine life on different planets. Now we have a pretty good idea that space is empty and devoid of intelligent life, at least in our corner of the universe. So SF stories on extra-terrestial civilizations ring pretty hollow these days.
Science fiction isn't science fiction anymore. It's post-modernism with a beard. Make real science fiction and it will find an audience.
I have always loved sci fi. Too bad Enterprise got canceled. I often wonder if it has a future too, but too many people are interested in stupid reality shows.
I will be surprised if science fiction ever shirks its stigma. Today's youth are not, for the most part, into imagination. I had an English professor talk about the "Frodo Lives" buttons he saw on campus, in the 70s. The class of early twentysomethings erupted in derisive laughter. Unless you are talking about a 90-minute film on the same level as an action movie, forget about it.
Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 has come to fruition.
maybe it is more that people are tired of utopian Science Fiction... and would rather have well written science fiction instead. Like FireFly, FarScape and Battlestar Galactica