"The Star Of The Sea author Una McCormack on ..." Topic

… coming of age in a sci-fi universe.

"I am a member of Generation X, and therefore I have watched the world transform into a science fiction universe. Three television channels became four and then were suddenly legion. Information became something to filter out, rather than seek out. My jetpack and flying car arrived by teleport the moment the clock ticked over to the millennium. I regularly holiday on the moon, and I am looking forward to the imminent admission of our species to the United Interplanetary Federation of All Round Good Eggs. Yes, the future is surely here, more or less.

When I was growing up, in the 1970s and 80s, I was pretty much convinced that there was not going to be a future. Sitting in my local library (now there's a utopian idea if ever there was), I subjected myself to a diet of really quite frightening young adult novels about living in nuclear wastelands. I knew for a fact that the world was going to end very soon, and certainly long before I had to worry about such mundane things as mortgages and pension schemes. In retrospect, this has not necessarily worked out to my advantage…"

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