Reading J.G. Ballard’s final novel (Kingdom Come). He perfectly explains the link between consumerism and the rise of “suburban fascism”. It was written 20 years ago but it feels like it should have been released last week.

What speculative fiction have you read that feels like it perfectly predicted the future?

  • Okokimup@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Feed by MT Anderson, published in 2002 had a good take on how they algorithms and advertisements would run our lives.

    For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon — a chance to party during spring break. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their .heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy girl who has decided to fight the feed and its ever-present ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. M.T. Anderson’s not-so-brave new world is a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.