It’s true that I don’t feature many new writers on the Science Fiction channel
Back when I was writing my science fiction column for The Guardian I read and wrote about many new writers
But there are 3 reasons why I don’t do so now
1. there’s far too much to read
2. the nature of algorithmic media makes it very hard to promote anything that isn’t already known
3. and this is really the major reason…science fiction has become wrapped up in its concept of itself as “genre fiction” and the vast majority of new writers seem to be writing “in genre”
and what I’m interested in are NEW myths for the age of science
One exception from the early days of the Science Fiction channel was my interview with QNTM.
QNTM’s concept of the “anti-meme”
ideas that have evolved so they cannot be known by humans
is I think the most original new idea in science fiction in the 21st century so far.
There Is No Anti-Memetics Division spins that concept into an X-Files meets Lovecraft spy story, which then mutates into a metaphysical mythos. It’s weird, it’s brilliantly written, it’s hyper-conceptual.
I hear QNTM has gone for a trad publishing deal, a possibility we discussed in the interview. Good luck to him.
Full interview linked in the comments.
LINK https://youtu.be/b1BG_xZv4gE?si=RXYhnCB2e7_QqqDn
Read the book – https://amzn.to/3YmhNor
Damien Walter 
There Is No Anti-Memetics Division is so good
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QNTM’s writing recalled to me Lem’s frequent exploration of the likelihood that humans would fail to recognize some forms of life much less as a conscious entity were they removed far enough from our experience to be either incomprehensible or even invisible (Solaris, The Invincible, His Master’s Voice).
“There Is No Anti-Memetics Division” forced a sidelong, suspicious glance at my own memories as possibly representative of something else. Are they fake or planted for some forgotten purpose? Are they possessed of an agency that is not mine, belonging to something outside of human perception? And what about perception, has that also been hijacked? At present, my medicine cabinet is lacking in mnestic defenses?
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