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Esquire, Adding Fiction Ebooks, Goes Back To The Future
latimes.com 1 week, 1 day agoOn Monday, Esquire announced that it will launch a new line of fiction ebooks with the help of e-publisher Open Road Media. The ebook series will be titled, plainly, "Fiction for Men." Editor-in-Chief David Granger tells the New York Times that men's fiction is "plot-driven and exciting, where one thing happens after another." That definition elicited groans on Twitter. "Oh good. Because lady readers & lady writers HATE exciting fiction when 'one thing happens after another,'" tweeted editor Reagan Arthur ,
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A Chart That Reveals How Science Fiction Futures Changed Over Time
io9.com 1 week, 4 days agoThe future may seem to be closer or farther off, depending on the era you're living in. That's one of the possible conclusions you can draw from this chart (embedded below), created by Stephanie Fox for io9, based on research we've done over the past month. We wanted to know whether there are historical trends in how far in the future we set our science fiction , and there definitely are. Here we present our data, as well as some preliminary conclusions about why the future changed so much from decade to de


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