Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedAndy Weir: evaluation
20 Dec 2017 Conversations with Tyler Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space
“I think lately YA fiction, young adult science fiction, has all been basically the same story told about 20 different times.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Andy Weir
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 20 Dec 2017
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Here’s another question from a reader: quote, “Peter Thiel remarks often how modern science fiction . . . depicts science and technological progress often as dangerous or bad,” like in the movie The Terminator or Hunger Games. “This is a departure from writers like Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke,” who are mostly very pro-technology, pro-science, optimistic vision. “What’s responsible for this cultural shift?” I don’t know. Interests in fiction and what people are buying goes up and down and changes over time. I think lately YA fiction, young adult science fiction, has all been basically the same story told about 20 different times. Correct, and dystopic.…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.