Chris Becker <cmb### [at] ritedu> wrote in message
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> Well, Science Fiction was done for September-October of 1996. I'm not sure
> how many times a repeated topic has been put up.
>

True, but I'm not sure that the topics are repetitious. They merely overlap.
The topics Nature, Elements, and Water were used consecutively.

I think that the most interesting topics are ones to which a degree of
emotion and prejudice have been attached. New ideas are always nice, but an
artist can have a powerful effect on a viewer by creating a representation
of an idea which already exists in the viewers mind. To me, an excellent
topic is one that conjures up similar images in many people's minds.

A topic like Hell is a good example. Most people, religious or not,
associate strong images with Hell. An artist can use these images to get a
strong reaction from the viewer or, better yet, twist common notions about
Hell to reflect his own views on the subject while still communicating to
the viewer directly through the use of accepted imagery.

I believe that the topic Classic Sci-fi could be used in this way without
being provocative enough to effect voting. Unlike other topics to which
strong imagery is attached like war or sex, classic sci-fi is not
contemporary and therefore the ideas about it remain fairly constant.

 -Shay

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