Comments on: The New Year in Speculative Fiction: The 2009 of Our Past Imaginations http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/non-fiction/articles/the-new-year-in-speculative-fiction-the-2009-of-our-past-imaginations/ From Modern Mythcraft to Magical Surrealism Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:16:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Greenhut http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/non-fiction/articles/the-new-year-in-speculative-fiction-the-2009-of-our-past-imaginations/comment-page-1/#comment-9248 Michael Greenhut Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:29:51 +0000 http://www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy/?p=1350#comment-9248 Nice to see you around these parts! Great article, too; I expect a follow-up in 2015 when we don't have our flying cars and robotic dog-walkers. Nice to see you around these parts! Great article, too; I expect a follow-up in 2015 when we don’t have our flying cars and robotic dog-walkers.

]]> By: Clint http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/non-fiction/articles/the-new-year-in-speculative-fiction-the-2009-of-our-past-imaginations/comment-page-1/#comment-9237 Clint Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:13:12 +0000 http://www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy/?p=1350#comment-9237 I woke up one day in 2006 and realized, "What a disappointment, the Transformers haven't surfaced to make a better future with humanity!" as 1980's cartoons would have us believe. The animated original, "Transformers: The Movie!" had 2006 as the time in which Optimus Prime is killed and Megatron is mortally wounded until he meets a giant planet eating transformer that rebuilds him into an even bigger megalomaniac. Nope. Not Ryan Secrest, but rather Galvatron. Here were are, three years later, no transformers, no Metroplex, no nothin'. The future totally sucks. I woke up one day in 2006 and realized, “What a disappointment, the Transformers haven’t surfaced to make a better future with humanity!” as 1980′s cartoons would have us believe.

The animated original, “Transformers: The Movie!” had 2006 as the time in which Optimus Prime is killed and Megatron is mortally wounded until he meets a giant planet eating transformer that rebuilds him into an even bigger megalomaniac. Nope. Not Ryan Secrest, but rather Galvatron.

Here were are, three years later, no transformers, no Metroplex, no nothin’. The future totally sucks.

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