DNF, but I think it’s my fault, not the book’s.

First of all, I’d like to thank NetGalley for the opportunity to review this book, and at the same time, I apologize for not finishing it.

I have to say that under normal circumstances, this is the kind of book I usually enjoy, but this time, due to personal reasons, it caught me at the wrong moment. I’ve restarted the book several times, but in the end, I’m giving up. Again, I believe this is due to my own circumstances and not the book itself. I don’t think it would be fair to rush through it or read it half-heartedly.

My opinion on what I have read so far: the book offers a very meticulous theoretical analysis of the subject matter. This insistence on accuracy and precision in the exposition makes it a difficult read—or perhaps I should say a challenging one. Very, very briefly, among many other things, the backbone of the book is the author’s proposal of a theoretical division into three perspectives on science fiction: extrapolation, speculation, and fabulation, which are thoroughly argued and then explored in greater detail. One notable aspect is that, as is often the case with books like this, it opens the door to discovering other readings, including both additional essays and key stories related to the arguments presented by the author.

Huge tv ank you to netgalley for supplying me with an eARC copy of Fluid Futures. I previously read A View from the Stars by Cixin Liu which talked about the impact if science fiction un the world and was interested in reading something else similar and I thought this would be great for that. To be completely honest, I didn’t think I found what I wanted out of this but I did find most of it interesting and did find it insightful towards techniques used in the science fiction genre.