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- Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:52 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Fantasy universes and worlds
- Replies: 40
- Views: 267287
When you're finished with Master and Margarita I'll be curious about your final verdict. I'll reserve mine until then. It did seem almost word-for-word, except for the very end, where it seemed to add some extraneous material. Some of it I would have to check against the text. I'll have to get the T...
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:03 am
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: Tell the Spartans...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 162819
- Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:36 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Icarus Beach: a teaser
- Replies: 16
- Views: 142812
More good news: Locus magazine's 2007 recommended reading list includes "Icarus Beach." Only two stories out of Analog last year made it.
Woo-hoo!
Now I gotta finish those other stories and send them out.
Woo-hoo!
Now I gotta finish those other stories and send them out.
- Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:08 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Science fiction/fantasy film recommendations
- Replies: 21
- Views: 188506
I agree the film was a disappointment -- far from Jackson's LotR films and from Cuaron's and Newell's Potter films, which brought at least a spark to the viewing process. We really loved the books, but the film is such a wet blanket that I doubt we'll even get the DVD. And to nuance the response to ...
- Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:27 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Of the Sith: An Essay
- Replies: 9
- Views: 97958
In both the Jedi doctrine and the Christian precepts, there seems to be an important bias against strong emotions. My guess would be that Lucas took this not from Christianity but rather from Buddhism, which in many forms also preaches detachment and, again in simplistic terms, against strong emoti...
- Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:04 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Of the Sith: An Essay
- Replies: 9
- Views: 97958
Eloise, Christianity understandably arouses strong emotions in many people, both positive and negative, from swooning devotion to anger, because of its complex history. In particular people who have a strong negative reaction to Christianity certainly have good reason, because of the many black mark...
- Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:14 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Of the Sith: An Essay
- Replies: 9
- Views: 97958
- Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:50 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Icarus Beach: a teaser
- Replies: 16
- Views: 142812
good reviews
"Icarus Beach" has garnered some good reviews. Most important to me is Gardner Dozois saying he almost included it in his Year's Best Science Fiction anthology: If I'd had just a little more room, I would have used "Icarus Beach," which struck me as the best story in ANALOG this ...
- Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:46 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: Happy New Year
- Replies: 2
- Views: 36412
Happy New Year
Happy 2008 to everyone. May it bring health, happiness, and peace to all of you and to the whole world.
- Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:32 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
- Replies: 33
- Views: 247510
- Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:14 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
- Replies: 33
- Views: 247510
Yet another outrage
Here is another news item to get upset about. The director for science curriculum in Texas was forced to resign for forwarding a notice about an anti-creationism talk. Read the article here , (and especially the memorandum therein attacking Ms. Comer) for details, but in essence the accusation is th...
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:25 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: The Two Cultures of Science Fiction
- Replies: 1
- Views: 37449
The Two Cultures of Science Fiction
People here might find this interesting: On The Fix, an online SF review site, there is an essay on the divide between "hard" and "soft" SF , made in analogy to C.P. Snow's classic lecture/essay on The Two Cultures (science and the humanities). This essay was written in large par...
- Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:09 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize for Literature!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 41236
Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize for Literature!
Her "Canopus in Argos" series used a lot of SF tropes, and in interviews she has defended SF both in its classic form and for its social vision. (see http://www.dorislessing.org/boston.html ) HB: You're also open to science fiction, and write about how parochial literary fiction is by comp...
- Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:08 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Icarus Beach: a teaser
- Replies: 16
- Views: 142812
- Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:12 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: Happy Birthday Athena!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 97047