You aren’t cool these days (both around the office and the blogosphere) if you don’t obsessively link to Marc Andreessen. So, it’s time to join the club ;)

I’ve been very impressed with all of Marc’s posts recently, but the one that really stopped me in my tracks was the post on Science Fiction authors in the 21st century.

I believe that Science Fiction falls into two camps: pure crap and utter brilliance. There’s no middle ground. I’ve never read a piece of SciFi and thought, “eh, that was ok.” I’m either angry at the SciFi book for wasting my time, or I worship at the SciFi book’s alter of the undeniable genius.

Furthermore, 98% of SciFi falls into the “pure crap” category. The remaining 2% is a gift from above.

That’s why I’m so excited by Marc’s post. He’s applied a solid filter on the entire SciFi space over the last 7 years. And just in time for beach weather. I’m stoked to be drinking high quality cyberpunk on the Atlantic coast. I plan to start with Ken MacLeod, but I’m open to other suggestions is anyone wants to filter Marc’s filter for me.