Books : I like the works of Greg Egan (early stuff), Sam Hughes (pretty much everything), Iain Banks
Movies : Primer, Immortal (2004), 5 Million Years to Earth
Because I would say most great scifi is political.
Then your experience is narrow.
Yes, politics is shit, comparatively.
What’s the implication?
I raise the torch because I was just over at a Star Trek community where the subject of politics in Star Trek was brought up.
I offered that politics is a popular substitute for proper sf. Which got me immediately banned of course.
But yes, what we’re seeing here is a manifestation of an age old phenomenon : Diamond is generated by a few lone weirdos. Popularized. Then the populace proceeds to sell its tired shit branded as diamond. Until the next diamond appears. (And the populace will be damned before they relinquish their grasp on that brand)
Call me whiny.
(and yes, we disagree about firefly)
There’s a problem with social media. There are a thousand communities selling themselves as niche when they are anything but. Everywhere you go it’s mere cosplay and drag.
Good one. You should write.
(Semantics really is the smallest possible point.)
I think that the real point here is legitimacy. Scifi has a big reputation. Popular scifi borrows legitimacy from that reputation.
Separate popular scifi from that reputation and it loses legitimacy.
One must be realistic about these things, surely you agree.
We have a genre of fiction invented by thinkers of strange thoughts, specifically to convey their strange thoughts. Because no other tool will do
The genre becomes famous. We dress up our cowboys in spacesuits and call it sf.
It’s a big difference.
We already agreed that it’s a big difference.
2 completely different things that have the same name. Superficially similar but actually not.
What’s the issue?
Your point is merely semantic then.
They are 2 quite different things tho. Worlds apart. It’s good to acknowledge the difference.
And it’s good to acknowledge that #2 is what the populace prefers.
So he killed a guy, except he did it with a laser.
Mind=blown.
Half the words are automatically capitalized when I text. Because they’re part of a corporation’s name.
UV kills the germs. They should install lamps. Added bonus everybody gets tan hands.
Engineers gotta respect reality. Scientists don’t.
To save space
I would normally kneejerk at any mention of Christianity but since it’s our favorite whipping boy I’ll go with it.
So they’re trying to crash the oil stock?
Wow. Creative and hurtful. You should feel proud.
Thanks. It was indeed absurdly verbose. These clowns who downvote you suffer from 2 tinfoil ears.
That fruit hangs so low that it’s practically dragging on the ground. That fruit is so obvious that it may as well be glowing in neon. Are you a half-blind caterpillar?