tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361629556545145030.post4209410990934451449..comments2023-09-25T12:17:43.433+01:00Comments on In the Plane of the Ecliptic: Should SF Die?Jetse de Vrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09995292305473339386noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361629556545145030.post-22406558754928244292010-11-22T21:14:54.501+00:002010-11-22T21:14:54.501+00:00Hi Jetse,
I just stumbled over this blog post by ...Hi Jetse,<br /><br />I just stumbled over this blog post by accident – searching for pictures of fire, actually. But instead you set ME on fire! Great article on SF! I agree with you in a lot of your observations.<br /><br />I also know that you discuss generel tendencies, and that you know there are exceptions to the rule.<br /><br />But still I feel a need to mention Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. By now the series is 15 to 20 years old. But still it stands as a proud example of what SF can achieve in regards to a serious and imaginative discussion of the challenges and possibilites(!) that our current society / world faces.<br /><br />You probably know the series, since you seem to be very into the genre, but since this is really the kind of SF, that you are asking for and since the series wasn’t discussed in the article, I thought it deserved to be mentioned.<br /><br />Again thank you for a very interesting article.<br /><br />Greetings from a fantasy writer – yeah, I guess I chose the right genre ;-) – from Denmark<br /><br />/SvenSven Damgaard Ørnstruphttp://www.fantascifi.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361629556545145030.post-25645710884074310052010-04-20T14:02:19.243+01:002010-04-20T14:02:19.243+01:00SF is'nt dying. But three phenmenons have poor...SF is'nt dying. But three phenmenons have poored the genre :<br />- Politisation in mid 2000. The developpement of near future sf, illustrating the will of the author of alignate themself for or agianst Georges W Bush Politics<br />- Posmodernism. break and deconstruction. Break with history, break with ethics (apology of transhumanism), break with humanity, break with body, break with continuity of genre. <br />- Developpement of commercial licence which invade and phagocyte all the segment of popular SF. Less and less original popular exploitation space op nowadays but only Starwars novels or 40k novels.<br />This conjonction of theses three trends is the cause of the actual SF collapse.Fabien Lyraudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01534294302016958334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361629556545145030.post-51306508528414179322010-02-25T08:53:39.972+00:002010-02-25T08:53:39.972+00:00NOTE: I accidentally deleted two *actual* comments...NOTE: I accidentally deleted two *actual* comments while removing spam that had somehow bypassed the captcha filter.<br /><br />Apologies to Athena and the other commenter!Jetse de Vrieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09995292305473339386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361629556545145030.post-66431761628659002132009-12-26T12:03:38.273+00:002009-12-26T12:03:38.273+00:00Hi Ernesto--
I knew you would come up with angles...Hi Ernesto--<br /><br />I knew you would come up with angles (I almost wrote angels) that I was unaware of.<br /><br />And you lead by example, too.<br /><br />Many thanks!Jetse de Vrieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09995292305473339386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361629556545145030.post-68280916500158444482009-12-25T21:39:36.045+00:002009-12-25T21:39:36.045+00:00Dear sir, I would like to quote from your essay on...Dear sir, I would like to quote from your essay on my blog - http://bujold.wordpress.com/ and, even, to translate it and publish it in romanian, maybe to be discussed, then, on www.srsff.ro, the Romanian Science Fiction and Fantasy Society site. Please be so good and allow me to do that. Please mail me on sorin.camner@gmail.com. Thank you very much.<br /><br />Kind regards,<br /><br />Sorin Camner, vice-president of RSFFSSorin Camnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09451444980025778535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361629556545145030.post-85886870247273849652009-12-25T17:57:33.520+00:002009-12-25T17:57:33.520+00:00Mutate or die -- we should do it soon. Or maybe j...Mutate or die -- we should do it soon. Or maybe just change names:<br /><br /> "Witchcraft always has a hard time, until it becomes established and changes its name." -- Charles Fort, LO!<br /><br />Or:"What will you do when the label comes off/and the plastic's all melted/and the chrome is too soft?" -- Frank Zappa, WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?<br /><br />As for sf being racist -- between Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian, and the folks who came up with the Arabian Nights story "The Ebony Horse," it looks like it was invented by the Arabs!<br /><br />I see I need to review George S. Schuyler's 1930s Black Power Sci-Fi epic BLACK EMPIRE . . .Ernest Hoganhttp://mondoernesto.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com