http://eclipticplane.blogspot.com/2009/12/should-sf-die.html
Jetse de Vries wrote: My viewpoint is that SF is becoming increasingly irrelevant, and that lack of relevance can be attributed to developments and trends already mentioned in the points above, and SF's unwillingness to really engage with the here-and-now. That doesn't mean that SF needs to die (actually, a slow marginalisation into an increasingly neglected and despised niche-cum-ghetto is probably a fate worse than death), but it does mean that SF needs to change, and that it needs to become much more inclusive of the alien (and I mean alien in `humans-can-be-aliens-to-each-other' sense) and proactive, meaning it should not just shout `FIRE! FIRE!' (and do almost nothing but), but both man the fire trucks *and* think of ways to prevent more fires.
