Good question. I'm happy that monochrom actually wrote and staged a sci-fi theatre play in 2006... "Warten auf Goto"... and there is a good chance we will translate it into English.
As well as being regarded with a certain warmth, there's also a sense of mistrust around the genre. Writers fear that it's somehow a bit uncool - a bit 70s - and so we get interminable plays about Urgent Contemporary Issues rather than coolly speculative projections. It's a shame. After all, some of the 20th century's greatest literature was set in the future - consider 1984, Brave New World and A Clockwork Orange.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]