Quoting Frederick Zackel <fzackel@wcnet.org>:
> Please check out the Future of Crime Fiction ...
>
> http://www.plotswithguns.com/
>
> As Neil Smith described it, "It's like this: Imagine you're a crime writer
> living in the year 2509. What sort of stories will pulp & noir slingers be
> pumping out by then? What will crime look like? What new bad things will we
> have found to do to each other? And what will the guns look like? (And if
> you say "There won't be any", well, you're a sadly deluded optimist, aren't
> you?) In other words, you're not writing Science Fiction,
> but rather the world outside your window (whatever world that may be).
That's actually most definitely writing Science Fiction.
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