SF is time travel: forwards, backwards and sideways, including alternate histories.
SF is also an escape from history.
The Hitler wins topos/trope/meme. The map of America in a famous Hitler wins story that's now a TV show too.
SF is an experiment whose control is not just the real world; it's also other genres.
You can experiment with alternate phenotypes, but also with alternate language.
An earlier innovation in physical substrate that clearly affected what sf writers did.
An even earlier innovation.
Egan's "Black Box," Paste Magazine online version.
Egan's "Black Box" in the original Twitter version thanks to Storify.
The New Yorker interviews Egan about "Black Box."
To read the famous or infamous PowerPoint chapter from Egan's novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, go to her own main site and click on the extreme right-hand label "Great Rock and Roll Pauses." You may also be able to view the chapter here.
More material from and about Egan's novel A Visit from the Goon Squad.
You can go back to your body, or you can end up in the night sky.
Joe Winkler's Twitter-style review of Egan's "Black Box."
Nick Montfort (and collaborators') interactive fiction. His monograph (2003-05) on interactive fiction.
The first widely influential interactive fiction.
Planetfall, by John Burnett. Burnett's main site. (Warning: may start audio automatically.)
José Adolph's story "Nosotros, no."
Cixin Liu, trans. Ken Liu: The Three-Body Problem.
Audio-native SF: The Bright Sessions. Audio-native slipstream: of course.
One way to think about gaming.
Another way to think about gaming.
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