The Edge of MadnessYOU know, I used to regard that new novel genre, alt-history, with keen interest. After all, what can be more creative and imaginative than history (or her-story) that never actually happened? Recently, however, I’ve come to view alt-history with stultifying fatigue. I think it’s having lived as an actor for four-plus years in a ongoing political alt-history “reality” show. Worn out. And what’s left, too thin to fantasize. Me, I just want out. Or, more accurately, back in — to reality.
Which begs an interesting question: Why am I writing SciFu — that new genre I characterize as “science-based and driven futuring?” Touching directly on “future studies,” that newest of academic fields that is proving increasingly useful in future planning, locally, regionally, nationally and globally. Is THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, my SciFu novel, really any different than, ho-hum, more alt-history?
I believe so. Alt-history is about alternatives to what has already happened. It’s a regression into past reality, presenting a re-write if you will, that provides a comparative perspective on what happened, and, in the process hopefully provides some insight into ourselves, the history makers. SciFu is a progression into the future, projecting actual past applied and theoretical scientific (i.e. “repeatable”) advances in all areas of science and the humanities into the future, providing insight into a plausible, likely future, should we, the history makers, continue in our present beliefs and endeavors. One is a mirror into the past; the other is a mirror into the future. SciFu, is neither alt-history, science fiction nor science fantasy. It is, I strongly hold, a new literary genre with its own considerable assets, not the least being an intoxicatingly invigorating read.
I think (hope) readers of TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, and the third in the series, now being written, tentatively entitled PROPHESY by Raymond Gaynor, will find even more than the gripping adventure, romance, eroticism, thrills and chills, a practical guide as to how to act in the present, whether you look forward to or want to protect against a tenable, credible, likely future.
Which begs an interesting question: Why am I writing SciFu — that new genre I characterize as “science-based and driven futuring?” Touching directly on “future studies,” that newest of academic fields that is proving increasingly useful in future planning, locally, regionally, nationally and globally. Is THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, my SciFu novel, really any different than, ho-hum, more alt-history?
I believe so. Alt-history is about alternatives to what has already happened. It’s a regression into past reality, presenting a re-write if you will, that provides a comparative perspective on what happened, and, in the process hopefully provides some insight into ourselves, the history makers. SciFu is a progression into the future, projecting actual past applied and theoretical scientific (i.e. “repeatable”) advances in all areas of science and the humanities into the future, providing insight into a plausible, likely future, should we, the history makers, continue in our present beliefs and endeavors. One is a mirror into the past; the other is a mirror into the future. SciFu, is neither alt-history, science fiction nor science fantasy. It is, I strongly hold, a new literary genre with its own considerable assets, not the least being an intoxicatingly invigorating read.
I think (hope) readers of TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, and the third in the series, now being written, tentatively entitled PROPHESY by Raymond Gaynor, will find even more than the gripping adventure, romance, eroticism, thrills and chills, a practical guide as to how to act in the present, whether you look forward to or want to protect against a tenable, credible, likely future.
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