"Everything is becoming science fiction."
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eldritchhobbitHappy belated birthday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
faramirgirl! I hope you had a wonderful day, and your year to come is the best yet!
Cory Doctorow's latest commentary at Locus Online is worth a read: "Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet."
And there's an interesting new book now available: Star Wars on Trial, edited by David Brin and Matthew Woodring Stover. Subtitled Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time, the book consists of alternating essays by Brin and Stover and numerous contributors respectively attacking and defending the Star Wars films on various issues, the central theme being "Is George Lucas a hero for bringing science fiction to a mass audience or a villain who doesn't understand the genre he's working for?"
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
J.G. Ballard, "Fictions of Every Kind"
faramirgirl! I hope you had a wonderful day, and your year to come is the best yet!Cory Doctorow's latest commentary at Locus Online is worth a read: "Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet."
And there's an interesting new book now available: Star Wars on Trial, edited by David Brin and Matthew Woodring Stover. Subtitled Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time, the book consists of alternating essays by Brin and Stover and numerous contributors respectively attacking and defending the Star Wars films on various issues, the central theme being "Is George Lucas a hero for bringing science fiction to a mass audience or a villain who doesn't understand the genre he's working for?"
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
J.G. Ballard, "Fictions of Every Kind"
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Date: 2006-07-22 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-07-22 02:18 pm (UTC)Well, considering the vast success he had in bringing SF to a mass audience, I'd say he understands the genre fairly well. The first (in terms of time) movie in particular IS the genre in a nutshell.
What the question maybe should be: "Does he understand the fans of the genre?" And the answer to that one is resoundingly NO.
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Date: 2006-07-23 01:19 pm (UTC)Well said indeed!
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Date: 2006-07-23 01:21 pm (UTC)I'm so grateful for your earlier post on Lady in the Water. We saw it yesterday and really liked it. And you're right about Paul Giamatti being a tear-jerker. What a performance!
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Date: 2006-07-22 07:02 pm (UTC)Looking forward to reading...
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Date: 2006-07-23 01:22 pm (UTC)You're most welcome! Thanks for friending me in the first place. :)
I have some catching up to do! - but then I am also running behind in catching up with Highlander/Forever Knight to keep up with Ith!
Yes! We're in the same boat, then. I've got lots of catching up to do, as well. I look forward to reading...!
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Date: 2006-07-22 11:10 pm (UTC)I have not read any of the Star Wars books, but I have seen all the movies and loved them.
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Date: 2006-07-23 01:23 pm (UTC)LOL on..........
Date: 2006-07-22 11:23 pm (UTC)Re: LOL on..........
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Date: 2006-07-23 03:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 01:24 pm (UTC)I love your icon, by the way. It looks like the Halfling Mafia! LOL.
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Date: 2006-07-23 10:12 pm (UTC)Gandalf to Frodo: "I'm gonna make you an offer you can't resist... ya gotta take dis here ring to Mt. Doom."
Frodo: "%&@*#$&%@)#*$&%@#$ing &#*!&#$#!!!"
Sam: "What he said."
Merry (a goodfella): "Hey! I wanna piece of dis action!"
Pippin (new goodfella): "Same here... I ain't gonna be left outa it!"
*G*
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Date: 2006-07-23 10:13 pm (UTC)where did your last post go
Date: 2006-07-23 08:28 pm (UTC)