There is a little truth in this

Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal opines science fiction has collapsed:

One way you can describe the collapse of the idea of the future is the collapse of science fiction. Now it's either about technology that doesn't work or about technology that's used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,' and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.'

After thinking about it a bit I had to agree.  With very few exceptions (John Ringo for one) it seems that most science fiction has devolved into dystopian, anti-technological screeds.  No one holds out any hope for the future.  It’s one of the reasons that my reading of science fiction has decreased drastically over the past few years.  Well that and the fact that all anyone writes anymore is cheap vampire fiction that gets stuffed into the Sci-Fi section at the bookstore.  Bastards!!  Anne Rice, Charlene Harris, and Stephanie Meyers should all be drawn and quartered on the steps of the US Capitol to serve as a warning to others who would inflict this torture upon us, but I digress.  Anyway you get my point; hopefully some talented writer will come to the same conclusion and start churning out some pages.