RE: Sci-fi
August 23, 2018 at 12:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2018 at 12:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
My personal opinion, is that the sci fi that falls between speculative fiction (Philip K Dick) and hard sci fi (Tom Godwin) - sci fantasy, is unsatisfying because of it's insistence on using the sci fi hook as a plot point - and then failing to deliver any appreciable science. In that sense, speculative fiction is harder sci fi than sci fantasy. It doesn't matter how a scramble suit works, cargo weight limits are real and damning.....but star trek warp drives are fuckin magic....
LOL. I know..I know, the Trek Cultists are setting their phasers to kill.
Iain Banks has been my most recent foray into sci fi. Haldeman, Heinlein, PKD, Chrichton were my introductions to the genre..laying aside those huge anthologies that you never remember any names from..and I think their stuff is still some of the best. Whoever wrote The Expanse is probably good..if the book is better than the shows (I'm assuming it is).
(I actually liked battlefield earth, movie blew - sue me )
LOL. I know..I know, the Trek Cultists are setting their phasers to kill.
Iain Banks has been my most recent foray into sci fi. Haldeman, Heinlein, PKD, Chrichton were my introductions to the genre..laying aside those huge anthologies that you never remember any names from..and I think their stuff is still some of the best. Whoever wrote The Expanse is probably good..if the book is better than the shows (I'm assuming it is).
(I actually liked battlefield earth, movie blew - sue me )
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