Good sci-fi doesn’t
have to be intuitive but it often helps. So let’s say I’m stacking up science fiction authors and I’m considering this quote
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hallucinatory Sci-Fi, a psychosomatic autopsy of the inevitable conclusion of Capitalism, crack addicts and captains of industry both reaching for warmth with equal anathema
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so what I’m thinking is in Virtual Light Gibson didn’t shine light on a possible conclusion of capitalism beyond a simple amplification of the present (a present that’s becoming more distant everyday)
compared to say Ursula K. Le Guin‘s The Dispossessed
Gibson’s universe is a three page digression by Le Guin. That’s how deep the disparity runs.