Over at the new SF blog IO9, an interview with multiple Prometheus Award winning writer, Ken MacLeod. Dare I say he might be the front runner again this year with The Execution Channel? What libertarian can’t help cheering at a quote like this? (“Whoops, my own ‘litmus test’…” he says with a sardonic smile)
in my own case, the political philosophers whose ideas most directly give rise to SF are the libertarians. Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia more or less compels you to think science-fictionally: how would this work? (Or not work, as the case may be.) You start imagining a crazy quilt of societies, and for me it was not far from there to something like Norlonto in The Star Fraction. Then there are the ecologists, but I can only imagine dystopias about them …
