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  • verb Present participle of futurize.

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Examples

  • And so by futurizing Jesus' definitive presence, once again we find a way to declare the present to be impoverished and impotent, devoid of qualitatively supreme engagement between creature and Creator.

    Eliot Daley: Killing the Church by Denigrating the Immediacy of God Eliot Daley 2011

  • Their bullshit meter for futurizing was extremely highly attuned.

    Futurizing 2007

  • But in order to be relevant to the world outside the genre, this futurizing is a joke.

    Futurizing 2007

  • That’s a really simple summary of an extremely complex story stuffed full of vulpine employers and pernicious locations and a whole lot of futurizing.

    Books in 2010, #3 pabba 2010

  • That’s a really simple summary of an extremely complex story stuffed full of vulpine employers and pernicious locations and a whole lot of futurizing.

    REVIEW: TouchMaster 3 (over at The First Hour) ravenelectrick 2010

  • I’m too easily overwhelmed with futurizing, and often, I don’t buy the future that’s being handed to me or I view it more as “fantasy” than actual SF, no matter how plausible it might really be.

    Futurizing 2007

  • It just feels like he’s spending a bunch of time futurizing his story.

    Futurizing 2007

  • I agree with his thoughts, but the thing that really fascinates me about world-building in sf right now, is the idea that sf may — because it’s so obsessed with futurizing — be speaking to its navel.

    Futurizing 2007

  • But I’m also conscious of the fact that every bit of futurizing I add means that a reader from outside the sf market is more likely to scoff at the story.

    Futurizing 2007

  • Because it sounds like we’re a lot alike when it comes to SF, cause I could care less about futurizing and bling a common critique of my stuff is that I don’t have enough.

    Futurizing 2007

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