[ckozlowski]

I agree. It also suffers from calling out sci-fi as some homogenous group that owes something to everyone else, and that's a premise I think is incorrect.

The writer focuses a lot on Stephenson, and this whole article I think could be simplified by saying "I don't like Neal Stephenson's work because it's too optimistic." Great.

But instead it casts it's premise way too wide, and ends up sounding ridiculous.