In his 2010 study Evaporating Genres American critic Gary Wolfe discusses both the (as he puts it) "evaporation" of science fiction and its subsequent condensation across the surfaces of culture more broadly conceived. In part this reflects the state of cultural production today, where tropes and features once associated only with science fiction appear in all manner of cultural texts, indicative of the need for art to deal with an increasingly technological, alienated and mediated social reality.