An astonishing foreseeing author...

[kass21]

An astonishing predicting author...

Do someone know a recent author who is incredible, mostly by his forecasting of what it could be like to live in the future (anytime in it)?

Isaac Asimov surely is one of the greatest, but I wonder if there is one newer author, with the knowledge of our actual world, who is skilled in that kind of writing.

Thanx

 

[Jenem]

I recommend Margaret Atwood. She calls herself a writer of speculative fiction. Some of her novels are not set in the future, but I read two of them that are:

Oryx and Crake
The Handmaid's Tale

Both are fantastic.

 

[Seb]

William Gibson is suposed to be quite good. I have never read his novels, but apparently his early work in the eighties predicted some stuff that happened in the ninties

 

[kass21]

thx...I'll put Oryx and Crake on my TBR list since it's been so much recommended and take good note of the others...so much to read...

 

[G4G]

William Gibson is suposed to be quite good. I have never read his novels, but apparently his early work in the eighties predicted some stuff that happened in the ninties

yes, the interweb and all that

 

[Stewart]

Phillip K. Dick, perhaps.

 

[JRakovan]

futures

Huxley, brave new world

future where we enslave ourselves through our own stupidity, complacency

http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=411508&x1=Y

the diamond age

a victorian revival, nanotech and balkanization of the world
http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=152793&x1=Y

Anthem

allegorical future: loss of individuality

http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=504219&x1=Y


the time machine

division of the world into class based species, eloi descending from the upper class, morlocks from the workers

http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=380036&x1=Y

neuromancer

the seminal "cyberpunk" work...post industrial cities,computer tech

http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=487053&x1=Y


also, try jules verne's 20,000 leagues under the sea and the mysterious island, a voyage to the moon...all were startling futures when written, even though they have come to pass..heinlein has a future history series,the space opera silliness of the lensman books may appeal to you, the dystopian nightmare of 1984, atwood's handmaid's tale is a great one as well

 

[Ainulindale]

There are too many authros to even mane, here are just some:


as Mentioned before Philip K. Dick and:


Ray Bradbury
Aldous Huxley
Robert Silverberg
Ursula Leguin
Geoff Ryman
Justina Robson
JG Ballard
George Orwell
Jack London's Iron Heel
Jonathan Lethmen
Jeffrey Thomas

 

[LauraHartwell]

I'd add Cory Doctorow to this list.