Charles Platt

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Charles Platt

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cryonics n. 1994 C. Platt In Search of Science Fiction in Interzone (#85) July 44/3 I met White a year ago when he and I appeared on a talk show promoting cryonics.
nanotechnology n. 1995 C. Platt Tomorrow's Technology–Today! in Interzone (#94) Apr. 4/1 (editorial) How will our families, our freedoms, and our earning power be impacted when radical breakthroughs in information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology move out of the laboratory, into the marketplace?
scientifiction n. 1994 C. Platt Carnival of Angst in Interzone Sept. 33/2 It catalyzed the growing awareness of style and technique in science fiction and interrupted the tradition of clumsy formula writing which had persisted, in various guises, ever since the birth of ‘scientifiction’ in the 1920s.
slipstream n. 1995 C. Platt Guest Editorial in Interzone (#94) Apr. 4/2 I encouraged them to draw on the whole spectrum of extrapolative methodology, including surrealism, Campbellian ‘hard SF,’ postmodernism, ‘slipstream’ SF, stream of consciousness, the 1960s ‘new wave’ humanist school, British pessimism/disaster school, and cyberpunk.