Mark Bould

“Jameson hews closely to the model proposed by Darko Suvin in the seventies: the SF text is dominated by a 'novum,' a materially plausible novelty or innovation - no magic allowed! - that produces an imaginative world different from the material world the author and reader inhabit (or at least, though he never says it, the world of conventional bourgeois realism). This difference should defamiliarize our own world, producing a sense of 'cognitive estrangement' that enables us to see it critically and anew ... If dystopia can no longer gain sufficient distance from our own world to generate the cognitive estrangement upon which SF's political potential hinges, we should not look to the future or to alternate words. We should, for the present, stick with the present. We just need to go deeper. To dive into boredom.”
― Mark Bould