I wish I could say I was digging around on the Digital Horn of Plenty and discovered an article listing Reality Testing as one of the greatest additions to the very limited cyberpunk canon, but I would be both lying and somewhat delusional. No, this wonderful post is intended to draw attention to an article I wrote for Shepherd.com titled “The best science fiction books that paint high-concept futures”. Paint? It seemed like the right verb to use at the time.
The article is available here.
Featuring all the Grant Price standards (Gibson! Cixin! Le Guin!), it’s the perfect way to kill five minutes while drinking the dregs of your Coffiest or enjoying a squirt of Popsie. That’s a reference to The Space Merchants….which is also in the list! Get going, you old future pirate.
the future is painted exclusively in shades of pink and blue.