The US science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson is guest editor of this week's New Scientist. He writes a piece himself on stories of now:
the literature that best expresses our time, that speaks to our time, is science fiction. How could it be otherwise? Our world is a science fiction.
This is important, because you need the literature of your time. You can't get the meaning of our life in 2009 from historical fiction, nor from science alone.
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