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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.
( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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it's a formula. there has to be certain elememts to qualify it as sci fi, hence the formula.
And didacticism runs deep in the genre, it's one of the many reasons why it is so laughable as reflective culture.
See also it not being anywhere near as clever a genre as its fans think it is.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
And didacticism runs deep in the genre, it's one of the many reasons why it is so laughable as reflective culture.
See also it not being anywhere near as clever a genre as its fans think it is.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
It's a formula alright. A lazy, tedious formula for lonely turds from IT with BO.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:41, Reply)
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:41, Reply)
What your'e saying here is that all novels are formulaic
and have to be in order to fit into a genre, but you're focussing it entirely on sci-fi/fantasy. You're being intellectually dishonest.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:41, Reply)
and have to be in order to fit into a genre, but you're focussing it entirely on sci-fi/fantasy. You're being intellectually dishonest.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:41, Reply)
"it's a formula. there has to be certain elememts to qualify it as sci fi, hence the formula"
Applicable to all genres.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:44, Reply)
Applicable to all genres.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:44, Reply)
I think it was the great Rory Lyon who once put it best:
'EastEnders in space'
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)
'EastEnders in space'
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)
Well it's not explicit is it, if that's exactly how it comes across.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:51, Reply)
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:51, Reply)
It's ok though, because it's sci fi that thinks it's cleverer than it is.
Sci fi.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:58, Reply)
Sci fi.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:58, Reply)
You're talking such bollocks, and being so proud of yourself.
There is nothing at all to be proud of about dismissing an entire swathe of culture which has been popular and celebrated since HG Wells.
That's willful ignorace and bloody mindedness you should just kill yourself.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)
There is nothing at all to be proud of about dismissing an entire swathe of culture which has been popular and celebrated since HG Wells.
That's willful ignorace and bloody mindedness you should just kill yourself.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)
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