Talking with Bruce Sterling at IDEA last October, one thing he said struck me. He said that he had stopped writing science fiction for the most part, and that he mostly wrote design fiction nowdays…”not that people really can tell the difference”. It’s an interesting thought - given the focus that we have on scenarios, narrative, and future trends in the design strategy world, that we also need fiction to bring the possible to light. Besides Sterling and Gibson, I think that Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe is great design fiction (with a user experience consultant as the protagonist). What other candidates for design fiction would you suggest?