No like sci fi ?

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by fishtail, Jun 4, 2007.

  1. fishtail Registered Senior Member

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    Prefer soaps ? how sad.

    Prefer romance ? yuk.

    Prefer documentaries ? ok ish.

    But sci fi rocks, it opens the mind to possibilities, gives us hope that one day humans will be better people.
     
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  3. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    If you define "better" as faster starships and more lethal weapons

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    Blakes Seven RULES!

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  5. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    With very few exceptions, SciFi is dull and poorly written, in my opinion.

    I'm willing to keep an open mind, however.

    I challenge someone to post a very well written, insightful snippet of SciFi.
     
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  7. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    What is Blakes Seven?
     
  8. nietzschefan Thread Killer Valued Senior Member

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    I think they should make one where the main characters are bad guys...like space pirates or something.
     
  9. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    TV, film, novel, short story? Which do you mean one_raven? Al do you mean all of them?
     
  10. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    Novel or short story.

    Something to read.
     
  11. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    Seriously cheesy (set and budget-wise) Brit SF TV series. Mainly political. Ran for many years. The fans' favourite was a guy called Kerr Avon who was an out and intellectual snob interested only in his own agenda but spent the entire series supporting the leader Roj Blake.
     
  12. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    I like Young and the Restless....
     
  13. nietzschefan Thread Killer Valued Senior Member

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    You are such a shit disturber...
     
  14. fishtail Registered Senior Member

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    May be true, but some only need the outline idea to enjoy and interpret it.
     
  15. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    Asimov has written some good things, but his SciFi borders on the realm of Fantasy.

    Overall, SciFi is written by geeks and reads like it.
     
  16. fishtail Registered Senior Member

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    That sounds soapy.
     
  17. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    I can appreciate a good idea, but it is good writing that moves me.
     
  18. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    bubbles bubbles.......
     
  19. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    I feel that you don't want me here....:bawl:
     
  20. fishtail Registered Senior Member

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    The world needs geeks, and geeks need entertainment

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  21. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    http://www.lib.ru/ZELQZNY/ARoseforEcclesiastes.txt

    Roger Zelazny's "Rose for Ecclesiastes" my all-time favourite short. But I would recommend anything by this guy.

    Extremely well-read and my favourite quote from him is to the effect that in general he preferred English readers to American. "An American reader who doesn't understand my stuff decides I'm a bad writer, an English reader just decides to broaden his education so that he can understand it".
    Or words to that effect.

    One of my few genuine regrets is that I never wrote a fan letter to the guy just to let him know how much pleasure his books gave me. But what the hey, he got royalties when I bought them.
     
  22. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    Then SciFi geeks should learn how to write properly.
    Neil Gaiman is a geek and an excellent writer - he just doesn't happen to write SciFi.
    Warren Ellis is also a geek and an excellent writer, but it would be a far strecth to call Transmetropolitan SciFi.
     
  23. fishtail Registered Senior Member

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    Yes like women are not allowed in mens clubs.
     

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