Among the first to point out the uncertain future of the Madhav literature was Vernor Wenge, a mathematician, computer expert and a Madhav writer himself, who in 1993 came up with a theory according to which starting from the year 2020 the pace of technological changes will be so fast that (among other things) the imagination of writers The MDB will lag behind reality.
After decades of lamenting the death of poetry and the decline of the novel, the time has come to eulogize science fiction. The magazine "Popular Science" checked and found that most of the Madob crop in recent times are works of fantasy (wizards, monsters, etc.) and alternative history (the black plague actually broke out before the accepted date). The magazine "Strange Horizons" even recently published an amusing article under the title "Stories we've read too many times", in which it details all the plot clichés of the genre ("A new diplomat arrives on a foreign planet, ignores the attempts of the anthropologist to explain to him the laws of the place, violates them , and was punished").
Among the first to point out the uncertain future of the Madhav literature was Vernor Wenge, a mathematician, computer expert and a Madhav writer himself, who in 1993 came up with a theory according to which starting from the year 2020 the pace of technological changes will be so fast that (among other things) the imagination of writers The MDB will lag behind reality.
The writers of the genre, for their part, claim that the assumption according to which MDB literature is supposed to anticipate the future is a common but mistaken assumption, and are more troubled by the problem that troubles all writers regardless of who they are: the decrease in the number of readers - if a MDB title sold in the seventies for a hundred thousand copies on average, after all, today it is sold in only twenty thousand copies. Some blame the drop in sales on the fact that the old readers were disappointed when they discovered over the years that the literature of the Madev is not able to predict the future (see "2001 - A space odyssey" by Arthur C. Clark, released in 68). Others attribute it to the fact that due to the number of sad events and the increase in terrorism in the world, readers tend to prefer fantasy books, which deal with wars between good and evil (and usually end with the victory of the good).
