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Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:
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> Hmm, maybe Brook's Magic Kingdom For Sale. Heinlein's Glory Road comes
> to mind, too.
I grew up on Brooks' "Shannara" series (LOTR for dummies, like me). Never read
the "Magic Kingdom" series, though. I was under the impression that was
fantasy, not sci-fi...
Dan
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:01:50 -0500, Dan Byers wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, maybe Brook's Magic Kingdom For Sale. Heinlein's Glory Road comes
>> to mind, too.
>
> I grew up on Brooks' "Shannara" series (LOTR for dummies, like me).
> Never read the "Magic Kingdom" series, though. I was under the
> impression that was fantasy, not sci-fi...
Been a long time since I read the Shannara series. I also liked Eddings
and Feist's books (Faerie Tale was one of my favourites)
Jim
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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
> Been a long time since I read the Shannara series. I also liked Eddings
> and Feist's books (Faerie Tale was one of my favourites)
>
> Jim
Well, I gotta say, I'm not a huge fan of a), although I liked "Dune" and I enjoy
Ray Bradbury. In fact, I read "Fahrenheit 451" again about six months ago, and
the parallels between that world and this one are spooky...
I'd like to read "Dune" again, maybe explore some of the other books in the
series. Then again, I'd like to climb out of this movie-making hole I've dug
for myself before I turn 80, so I think books, sadly, will be relegated to the
back burner :(
Dan
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:36:15 -0500, Dan Byers wrote:
> In fact, I read "Fahrenheit 451" again about six months ago, and the
> parallels between that world and this one are spooky...
I need to read that one one of these days - got a copy out in the other
room, just never got around to it...
Jim
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Dan Byers wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:
>> Hmm, maybe Brook's Magic Kingdom For Sale. Heinlein's Glory Road comes
>> to mind, too.
>
> I grew up on Brooks' "Shannara" series (LOTR for dummies, like me). Never read
> the "Magic Kingdom" series, though. I was under the impression that was
> fantasy, not sci-fi...
It's been ages since I read it. I just recalled the start of it,
something about an amulet that transported a person from a spot just a
few miles up the road from me into another world.
Guess the difference in that is if it's science that transports him,
it's fantastical scifi. If it's magic, it's fantasy. Guess I need to
re-read it and find out.
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Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> Guess the difference in that is if it's science that transports him,
> it's fantastical scifi. If it's magic, it's fantasy.
Nah. It's whether the plot of the story revolves around being
transported, or whether that just happens to be a way to drop someone
into a magical (or scientific) realm.
Like, the Myst series is science fiction. The point is to figure out how
to work the books. Without the book technology (whether it be magic,
science, or something else), the entire series would make no sense. You
couldn't re-do Myst without the teleportation aspect.
Quake and Quake II and Half-Life are fantasy, even tho they're set in
technological worlds. The point isn't that these are aliens. You could
make them "evil communists" just as easily and the game would play the
same.
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I don't consider it
> to be science fiction unless it's actually about the technology and how
> people react to it. If you could take the story about war between worlds
> with blasters, and set it down as war between countries with revolvers,
> it isn't science fiction. On the other hand, if it's about how
> technology affects people, even old technology then I'd call it science
> fiction. Stories of how medieval peasants deal with the first knights in
> armor would be SF in my book.
a very good definition indeed.
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nemesis wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> I don't consider it
>> to be science fiction unless it's actually about the technology and how
>> people react to it. If you could take the story about war between worlds
>> with blasters, and set it down as war between countries with revolvers,
>> it isn't science fiction. On the other hand, if it's about how
>> technology affects people, even old technology then I'd call it science
>> fiction. Stories of how medieval peasants deal with the first knights in
>> armor would be SF in my book.
>
> a very good definition indeed.
I must confess, it is not mine. I don't remember where I heard it, but
it stuck with me since then.
I also like a series where a world is created, populated with a range of
people (or species), and presented. Larry Niven and Terry Pratchett both
do these very well.
(Heh. Nerdware. Apparently Firefox's spelling dictionary recognises both
those names. :-)
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It's not feature creep if you put it
at the end and adjust the release date.
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Jim Henderson wrote:
>> In fact, I read "Fahrenheit 451" again about six months ago, and the
>> parallels between that world and this one are spooky...
>
> I need to read that one one of these days - got a copy out in the other
> room, just never got around to it...
Great book.
I think it's incorrect to refer to him as a sci/fi writer, though.
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Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> I think it's incorrect to refer to him as a sci/fi writer, though.
The only Bradbury I ever liked was Martian Chronicles and Illustrated
Man. Everything else seemed... well, I just couldn't get past the first
chapter.
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It's not feature creep if you put it
at the end and adjust the release date.
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