"I feel tricked. I feel like the 21st century pulled a fast one. Growing up, I was raised on a pre-millennium realist fiction that focused hard on real people, their real problems, the real gripes and desires of a real modern society. I fell in love with a complex but containable realism—you could see its four walls.
But now that I try to write my own realist fiction, I have to contend with all that the 21st century is throwing at us: AI, social media, pandemics, cartoon leaders, climate disaster, drone warfare, space…great topics, just not ones that feel real. There is too much future, today.
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Here are some books that do similar: four about technology; one each about medicine, synthetic love, the internet, mathematics; and two set in space."
-Fred Lunzer (he/him)
