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TheProgtologist
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Posted: September 11 2005 at 17:55 |
I see what you mean but I was giving an example that I though the topic creator could identify with.Being a sci-fi and fantasy fan I know there is more to fantasy literature than your standard dungeons and dragons and magical swords and epic quest books.
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Manunkind
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Posted: September 11 2005 at 18:03 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
I see what you mean but I was giving an example that I though the topic creator could identify with.Being a sci-fi and fantasy fan I know there is more to fantasy literature than your standard dungeons and dragons and magical swords and epic quest books.
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Sure, no offence intended or taken. IMO Star Wars is very much borderline, though.
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"In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: September 11 2005 at 21:27 |
Manunkind wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
I see what you mean but I was giving an example that I though the topic creator could identify with.Being a sci-fi and fantasy fan I know there is more to fantasy literature than your standard dungeons and dragons and magical swords and epic quest books.
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Sure, no offence intended or taken. IMO Star Wars is very much borderline, though.
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Well,the whole thing with the force,and Jedi & Sith is a fantasy element ,and a very important one at that.
Still think SW is largely a sc-fi film though.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: September 11 2005 at 21:29 |
On a quick side note I think a series of books that offer a fresh take on fantasy are Stephen King's Dark Tower books.A great mishmash of fantasy,western and horror and one of the best "quest" series of books ever written.
Besides being a SW geek I am also a confirmed Tower junkie
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Trotsky
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Posted: September 12 2005 at 00:00 |
sci-fi ... albeit a sort of boy-band version ...
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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marktheshark
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Joined: April 24 2005
Location: United States
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Posted: September 18 2005 at 18:49 |
Fantasy for me. Pretty much fantasy with some sci-fi elements in it but all in all fantasy. It's more philosophical and political than scientific. Plus, it doesn't relate to our global societies, present or futuristic except maybe on a metaphoric level.
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Prodigal
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Posted: September 19 2005 at 12:26 |
It's both for me.
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