Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Is it a good or bad sign that J. G. Ballard has been my source of sanity this year? 🤔
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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He’s not a “good” writer by conventional standards, though he has his sublime bits, but he’s essential in some way. He is to speculative fiction what LA is to cities. A prototype of the future and a breakpoint from the past.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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In a way he killed SF as a category and replaced it with protocol fiction by 1980 but nobody noticed.
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