February was an insanely busy writing month for me, with several things going on that I promise to post about soon. For now, however, here's a lovely article from the always thoughtful Irish political blog Crooked Timber about looking to science fiction writers for intelligent predictions about the political ramifications of mechanization and globalization. Notably, the writers it mentions are Iain Banks (a personal favorite); Walter Jon Williams (with whom I just did an interview for Lightspeed Magazine in which we discussed this very question); and Frederik Pohl, my single favorite golden age writer, and the co-author of my pick for the best SFnal critique of modern consumer-based capitalism ever: The Space Merchants.
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