New Scientist asked a bunch of authors to write some micro-stories about the year 2107. Stephen Baxter (again) shows how Sci Fi can explore important existential questions about technology and 'progress'. Here's the end; raising all the pertinent questions ...
Kelvin 2.0 by Stephen Baxter - 16 September 2009 - New Scientist: "And we need your help. The suicides have started... How did you cope with imminent cosmic termination? As Darwin said of your dying sun, 'Even personal annihilation sinks in my mind into insignificance.'
And, sir, our cosmologists ask: how was it to learn that you had been so utterly wrong?"
I trust I don't have to spell out to most of my readership why it's significant.
Nous like scouse or French -oui? We wee whee all the way ... to mind us a bunch of thunks. Too much information? How could that be?
27 September 2009
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