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Saturday 01 Sep 2007

science fiction redux

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9 Responses to “science fiction redux”

1. on 01 Sep 2007 at 7:04 pm   Tennessee Budd
   
   

   I would about bet money that Kim & The Mrs. have read it, along with most of Twain’s other works. I certainly hope they’ve read “Letters from the Earth”: it’s not to be missed.

2. on 02 Sep 2007 at 8:16 am   Charles Eaton
   
   

   Given Kim’s combination of profound prejudice against Science Fiction, probably inspired by his demonstrably profound ignorance about the genre, I wonder if he’d even understand that Clemmen’s work was Science Fiction.

3. on 02 Sep 2007 at 9:48 am   og
   
   

   I don’t know that it’s a profound ignorance, I suspect it’s just a profound disinterest. Each of us has our own likes and dislikes, and unless it’s killing puppies I can’t see anything bad in any of it.

4. on 02 Sep 2007 at 1:18 pm   Graumagus
   
   

   I can see why Kim gets annoyed, even though I’m a HUGE scifi/fantasy fan. I took his anti-scifi posts as sort of a “This is why I don’t like scifi. If you do, fine, but I don’t and I’m not going to” statement. I can respect that. Too many people seem to believe that if someone doesn’t like the same things you do, that something is wrong with them (or with themselves). That would annoy the fuck out of me as well.

   IE: Kim doesn’t like shooting handguns in bear killing calibers, like the .44 mag. I loves me my 44 (I could shoot her every day if the wife would let me get a second mortgage on the house). Doesn’t make either of us “wrong”, it’s just a personal preference.

5. on 02 Sep 2007 at 9:59 pm   Curiousrelic
   
   

   Hey Og,

   OT but did you get out to Crown Point this weekenffor the gunshow. I got ther with about 1 hour to go and got a few rounds for ammo day jr. Man that surplus ammo is geting up in price. I need to stock up before it gets crazy expensive. We gotta get out to Kingsbury my man.
   TTFN

6. on 02 Sep 2007 at 10:00 pm   Curiousrelic
   
   

   OK slow down fat fingers…sorry about the grammar/spelling

7. on 02 Sep 2007 at 10:26 pm   Andrea Harris
   
   

   That’s not science fiction anyway, it’s satire.

8. on 03 Sep 2007 at 8:07 am   og
   
   

   Um, no, Andrea, it’s sf. In fact the book created it’s whole entire genre of SF.

   CR, I’m too broke to pay attention. I ended up buying a box of 22 for ammo day.

9. on 04 Sep 2007 at 8:19 pm   triticale
   
   

   Directly in the sub-genre of science fiction which Twain introduced are Eric Flint’s 1632 series and S.M Stirling’s Island in the Sea of Time. Jerry Pournelle’s “King David’s Spaceship” and his Janissaries series come close, as does Harry Turtledove’s “Guns of the South”. A large percentage of all science fiction deals in one way or another with issues relating to interaction of people (or the like) with differing skill bases.

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