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Q: If you could pick the Next Big Trend/Movement in sf or fantasy literature, what would it be and why? Summarize a representative story for this movement. Jeff VanderMeer : Taking my cue from Charles Yu's absolutely brilliant new book, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, I see the following possible alternative universe futures breaking off from our own future, which will be destroyed by global warming within ten years, thus making all trends and movements moot. You will want to build yourself a TM-31 Recreational Time Travel Device and get yourself to one of these enclaves... * Microism: A new trend in which up-and-comers riff off of one existing established author. For example, we will see such movements as Chiangpunk, Linkpunk, Morganpunk, Okoraforpunk, Atwoodpunk, etc. * Next Wave: The genre community will keep trending multi-cultural and, at the same, trend less commercial and more personal, in part because many of the non-white authors entering the field are also not restricting themselves to traditional narrative approaches. This is a Good Thing in general for non-realistic fiction, and, even better, these differing perspectives aren't coming in one at a time but in waves. Waves of kick-ass. I long for the day when I can write a story in code and be called too traditional. * Samepunk: The world is overrun by literary zombies, werewolves, vampires, and by zombies, werewolves, and vampires repurposed to run the engines of Victorian- and Edwardian-era novels to the point of public vomiting. As a result, even the Disney Corp. becomes so sick of the boredom of it all that it relents in its claw-like hold on lobbying for copyright restrictions, so that at least the mash-ups can be updated to embed zombies, werewolves, and vampires into 1950s Beat novels or something. * Steampunkforeverpunk: Genre will be forever encrusted, like peppercorn tuna, with the baroque stylings of Steampunk, which will eventually account for 95 percent of all genre fiction and about 50 percent of the mass of the planet, excluding the biomass of squid, if you take into account not only the biomass of humans who self-identify as Steampunks, but also the Things the Steampunks have Created, including books. * Connpunk: Stealthvirus Brian Conn will rewire all of our brains by 2015 and connect them to the Mother Spider that we may power the engines of his narrative monsters. No book not written by Conn will exist by 2020. All hail Conn. (Damn you, Conn.) * TMpunk: Characters from Star Wars and Star Trek will manifest in our universe/time-stream and begin to write their own novels about our mundane existence as push-back against being written into tie-in novels.

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