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Posted: July 07 2009 at 23:46
What in the world is wrong with that thread about not taking threads too seriously? Does that person fail to realize that everything on the internet is to be taken 110% seriously?!
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Posted: July 07 2009 at 21:42
Yes, I know there's plenty of sci-fi that doesn't have a spaceship. But sci-fi is fundamentally about spaceships and robots, that's what was established in the '50s and it's more or less continued. Let's look at some of the most famous sci-fi novels. I'll give you The Time Machine and even Neuromancer, but there's also:
War of the Worlds
Starship Troopers
2001 series
Martian Chronicles
Rama series
Foundation series Ringworld
Dune series
Maybe it's because I primarily enjoyed '50s sci-fi when I was more into it, but the only other famous sci-fi I can think of is Philip K Dick and Ursula K Le Guin.
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Posted: July 07 2009 at 21:38
The Dune universe is second only to The Lord of the Rings univirse, if not first as far as depth, substance, and significance. In actuality, the themes in Dune seem to be much more interesting and significant than in The Lord of the Rings. All sci-fi bows down to Herbert.
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Posted: July 07 2009 at 21:31
Henry Plainview wrote:
Calling Slaughter-House Five sci-fi is a stretch.
Spaceships are the core of sci-fi! Asimov, Bradbury, and Heinlein would like to have some words with you.Although admittedly, a good chunk of Bradbury was LSD trips (Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric, etc.)
Well yes, I wouldn't call Vonnegut sci-fi but it has sci-fi elements.
There's a lot of sci-fi out there that doesn't feature space elements. A lot of H.G. Wells novels/novellas/short stories, for starters.
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Posted: July 07 2009 at 21:19
Calling Slaughter-House Five sci-fi is a stretch.
Spaceships are the core of sci-fi! Asimov, Bradbury, and Heinlein would like to have some words with you.Although admittedly, a good chunk of Bradbury was LSD trips (Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric, etc.)
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Posted: July 07 2009 at 20:57
Well yes but I've never read anything by him as of yet...
The sci-fi I like tends to be firmly set on earth, or has amusing moments involving space and time travel, like Slaughterhouse-Five and other Vonnegut novels.
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Posted: July 07 2009 at 20:55
James wrote:
rushfan4 wrote:
Glad you had a good time, even though the weather didn't cooperate. I believe that Dostoyevsky is beyond my reading level. I did just finish reading the 2nd book from the Star Wars Darth Bane series though. Now I have to wait until December until book 3 is released, unless I decide to try and attack one of the other Star Wars' series. * Sci Fi geek confession *
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I did just finish reading the 2nd book from the Star Wars Darth Bane series though. Now I have to wait until December until book 3 is released, unless I decide to try and attack one of the other Star Wars' series. * Sci Fi geek confession *
