Talking Fantasy

What is science fiction today?

In movies, it looks like any film with enough spectacular visual and special effects can be called science fiction.

Books have no special effects like that. I don't recall recent science fiction of any importance. People tell me they are fed up with science that they don't understand; to make todays science into believable fiction, you have to be a master of science and the readers wouldn't understand anyhow.

What is your point of view?

Soylent Green (great topic) is a movie of the 1970s, HG Well is so very last century (but one of the all-time best SciFi writers ever).

They are not from "today". I admit a lot of fabulous SciFi has been written in the 20th century, but after Cyberpunk in the early 1980s it was going down. In my opinion, disasters like the explosion of Space Shutte "Challenger" and the Chernobyl Meltdown have halted the idea the the future with all it's technological progess was the ideal setting for great speculative fiction.