Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them
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Re: Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them
#2Hey, the article mentions HN-favorite Ken Liu, author of the Three-Body Problem.
Re: Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them
#3This is part of the plot by Armada by Ernest Client (which was also heavily influenced by Ender's Game)
Re: Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them
#4Hey, the article mentions HN-favorite Ken Liu, author of the Three-Body Problem.
Ken is the translator (but a writer of other things), Liu Cixin is the author.
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#6Reminds of this story from a while ago: the head writer for Call of Duty switched to working at a think tank, given his experience imagining the future of warfare. http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/09/22/call-of-duty-star-video-...
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#7Reminds me of a quote from Alan Kay: "A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
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#8I wonder what the annual revenues are. I'm skeptical.
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#9"Sweet Tooth" Ian McEwan: CIA, MI5 and MI6 are sponsoring many writers, such as some companies sponsor open source devs
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#10I posted something similar on HN nearly a year ago: https://www.fastcompany.com/3063187/scifutures-probes-your-c...
It's a nice complement to this New Yorker article :-)