Startrek. The Missing Near Future. [Translations: Japanese] Science fiction is an entertaining way to worry about the present.
It uses stories set in the future to confront issues of today. Even when it is oozing marvels which have not yet been invented, those futuristic things can only be related in the way the current audience perceives them. Just look at decades old science fiction to see how old-fashion-y it considers the inventions of today – computers and the like. 2008 Hugo Award Winners. [Best Fan Writer Hugo winner John Scalzi with Mary Robinette Kowal, winner of the John W.
Campbell Award for Best New Writer.] The 2008 Hugo Awards Ceremony is taking place tonight, at the 66th Annual World Science Fiction Convention, in Denver, CO.