Yesterday I posted about The Guardian's view of the next generation of SF, at that point I hadn't got round to reading Jonathan's latest Blasphemous Geometries column in Futurismic in which he attacks the same topic.
Nick Harkaway's brilliant The Gone-Away World and Patrick Ness' very trendy in SF blog circles The Knife of Never Letting Go are both mentioned and Jonathan expands on his Barleypunk movement. The image that comes into mind when I read the word Barleypunk is a kind of Wurzels character with straw in the mouth, standing in a field, however the real definition derives from something with much more swearing.
Nick Harkaway's brilliant The Gone-Away World and Patrick Ness' very trendy in SF blog circles The Knife of Never Letting Go are both mentioned and Jonathan expands on his Barleypunk movement. The image that comes into mind when I read the word Barleypunk is a kind of Wurzels character with straw in the mouth, standing in a field, however the real definition derives from something with much more swearing.
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