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f4f3First fruits of my resurgent interest in the SF movement.
Vian Ken McLeod's blog:http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/ (The Early Days of a Better Nation - highly recommended reading)
I found a link to the Mundane Manifesto:
http://mundanesf.com/default.asp?id=2&mnu=2
Now the goals of these fine people are all well and good (although I shuddered at the identification of "Timescape" by Greg Benford as an ur-Text) who the hell calls themselves Mundanes? I know this is used in the same tricksy sense as Neil Game-on's Mundane Egg in the books of magic, and that SF fans are always asked to be careful to avoid freaking out Mundanes around convention sites, it doesn't exactly inspire fervour in the followers, does it?
The last "movement" I got interested in when I was still heavily interested in Cyberpunk was Rudy Rucker's ( http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/ ) Transrealism - basically this was an excuse for RR and friends to write whatever they already did, only more so, but that was a REAL name for a sub-genre.
Vian Ken McLeod's blog:http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/ (The Early Days of a Better Nation - highly recommended reading)
I found a link to the Mundane Manifesto:
http://mundanesf.com/default.asp?id=2&mnu=2
Now the goals of these fine people are all well and good (although I shuddered at the identification of "Timescape" by Greg Benford as an ur-Text) who the hell calls themselves Mundanes? I know this is used in the same tricksy sense as Neil Game-on's Mundane Egg in the books of magic, and that SF fans are always asked to be careful to avoid freaking out Mundanes around convention sites, it doesn't exactly inspire fervour in the followers, does it?
The last "movement" I got interested in when I was still heavily interested in Cyberpunk was Rudy Rucker's ( http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/ ) Transrealism - basically this was an excuse for RR and friends to write whatever they already did, only more so, but that was a REAL name for a sub-genre.
