THE SALAD BOWL OF SCIENCE FICTION: 2020 EDITION

We are living the science fiction future, baby,

we got the cyberpunk, hackers

keeping hospitals hostage

and life outdoors exchanged

for life online ( I was just fighting on Korriban);

we got the global pandemic

waving a scythe across a planet

in the throes of global warming:

See the death count change live!

See the glaciers flowing us to our doom!

We have the authoritarian dystopia

(it comes in different flavours),

we have the society run by marketing,

we got it all, baby -

even billionaire deus ex machina

cohort reaching for the stars,

right out of the libertarians' wet dreams.

We got it all, baby,

we got the salad bowl of science fiction.

06.05.2020