Those Sci-Fi Nerds are Insidious

First they infiltrate your lunch table and then they start writing books. Now they want to be POPULAR. Oh. My. God. Can you, like, imagine?




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Tesseracts 9 (Subtitled: Reading a Dead Horse)

Is open for submissions.



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The Future is Canuck Cowboys!

Heinlein thought the future should be patterned on Alberta. Luckily, that's a future of the past. Yeehaw.



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There is a new sci-fi/horror film being made called Project Aurora. They have a website full of pictures and news from the film makers. It's updated almost daily. They even have tutorials so you can see how to do special effects and make-up on your own movies. www.clipboardvideo.com .. check it out!

Edited by author 01-01-2004 10:30 PM
After 25 years in the field of parapsychology, I finally completed the novel Staretz Encounter: A New Age Thriller. For those in the know, who remember when Uri Geller first came onto the scene in the mid-1970's, it was a time of amazing moments. Literally a revolution in the field of the quantum physics of consciousness began in great part, because of Geller and his spoon-bending feats. He also helped spawn many movies like The Fury, Dreamscape, Phenomena and more recently X-Men. Partly based on this period in history, Staretz Encounter is a new age trek through a paradigm-shifting world where telekinesis and telepathy are more than arcane possibilities. Check it out at 1st Books.com or Amazon. Dr. Seifer is also the author of the acclaimed biography Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla, an earlier father of the world of sci-fi.

Sci-Fi OED

Now there's an OED for sci-fi geeks! (From SciFi Weekly)



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And Here I Wasted My Puberty With Penthouse and Playboy

I should have been reading Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. (From Boing Boing)



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Technovelgy

Cool site about science fiction inventions. (From Boing Boing)



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Yes, it is open for submissions. Book, author, item name, page and quote. Science fiction, first use of an idea, interesting variation on existing idea - you get the idea.

Fortunately for me, I didn't have to build a Scriptorium in the back yard for all the snippets for my SF OED; I was able to build a virtual one.

Thanks for checking out Technovelgy.com - where science meets fiction

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Filthy Smut Peddlers Respond

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine takes issue with being portrayed as pornographic. (From Bookslut)



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S1ngularity::criticism

I haven't checked out S1ngularity::criticism for a while, which is a shame. It has a great discussion of Donald Barthelme, one of my favourites, including a weird comment from John Updike: "Donald Barthelme? Is he read now, by people of your age...? He's become a curiosity.... There are fads in critical fashion, but a writer at his peril strays too far from realism. Especially in this country, where realism is kind of our thing." What the fuck is that supposed to mean? They also link to a couple of commentary pieces on science fiction. Jonathan Lethem has an interesting essay on where sci-fi went astray: "It's now a commonplace in film criticism that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg together brought to a crashing halt the most progressive and interesting decade in American film since the '30s. What's eerie is that the same duo are the villains in SF's tragedy as well, though you might want to add a third name, J. R. R. Tolkien. The vast popular success of the imagery and archetypes purveyed by those three savants of children's literature expanded the market for "sci-fi", a cartoonified, castrated, and deeply nostalgic version of the budding literature, a thousandfold."



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Mars-Fi
Kim Stanley Robinson on the history of Mars science fiction. "Mars and science fiction came of age together in the 1890's, and ever since they have had a tight relationship, a feedback loop that has made both famous."

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The Next Big Thing in SF?
If you like the dirty SF realism of William Gibson, you may want to check out Richard Morgan. I've only read Altered Carbon, his first book, but it was a treat, featuring a noir world of the future, downloadable consciousness and a UN that actually works -- through insane levels of violence. The book earned a film deal, and also generated a sequel, Broken Angels, which is next on my reading list. Check out an interview with Morgan as he talks about his books and the leisurely life of a full-time writer. He also talks politics a bit over at Infinity Plus.

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French SF
A brief but interesting overview of the history of French science fiction.
"Art in the future was a central theme in the eighties and it is making a serious comeback. It is interesting to note that the so-called art defined in the future is either a terrorist way to change society -- art as a means to move the masses and to control them -- or the ultimate expression of freedom versus totalitarian states. In the just released line Musees, Des Mondes Enigmatiques (Museums, Enigmatic Worlds), most stories describe fugitives from the outside world seeking refuge in a museum. Some of them are trapped and destroyed, some find help from other refugees. Almost no character is interested in art for art's sake. As a possible metaphor of actual French SF, this is quite frightening."

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Edited by author 04-19-2004 10:44 PM
Nebula Award Winners Announced

And what a lovely looking group they are.



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Reason Must Prevail
Sure, you could spend your evenings watching reruns of Friends. Or you could listen to the BBC's audio adaptation of Zamyatin's We. D-503 is way wackier than Chandler anyway.

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China Mieville on Ted Chiang
I recently read Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and quite enjoyed it. The collection took him a decade to write and he won a whack of awards for them. It's normally sold in the sci-fi sections of bookstores, but it's sci-fi in the way that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is sci-fi. My favourite piece is in the book is "Hell is the Absence of God":
"For this story, the bleak doctrines of some Christian fundamentalists are scientific predicates known to be true. Hell and Heaven exist -- characters can see them, sometimes -- and angels visit the earth with bursts of Holy Presence and catastrophic side-effects. There is, though, no moralistic Sturm und Drang; while he emphatically problematises the theology that underpins its world, Chiang does not descend to the finger-wagging one might expect from a liberal intellectual."

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The Man Who Fell to Earth

Profile of Walter Tevis.

Walter Tevis never thought of himself as a science fiction writer. And when he wrote of aliens among us, or of the end of civilization, he did so as though he were inventing the form; wrote, in Jonathan Lethem's words, "with a sort of beautiful literary amnesia . . . refusing genre."



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Want to Learn About Sci-Fi Without Having to Read the Books?
You can always listen to the sci-fi history lectures. Warning: the site uses RealPlayer, so the focus must be on dystopia.

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Hitching a Read

Here's a page full of mp3s of Douglas Adams reading from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (From Incoming Signals)



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I, Asimov
Cory Doctorow has a piece in Wired about the legacy of Isaac Asimov and the new I, Robot film.


Isaac Asimov wrote some 500 novels and short stories in his lifetime, and more than a thousand nonfiction essays. He was a gentleman. A scientist. A mensch. He graciously received the fans that flocked to him at conventions, giving each a moment of his time. He penned dozens of stories devoted to androids with positronic brains, a term he invented to suggest an intelligent being, and coined the neologism robotics in the process. He lent his name to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (now published as Asimov's) and answered correspondence in the magazine's letters column from its founding in 1977 until his death 15 years later. The magazine has won more Hugos, science fiction's greatest honor, than any other publication in the history of the genre. Asimov's is the first place that many writers (myself included) ever approached with a story idea.

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The Treasure Island of SF

Michel Basilières's Maisonneuve column looks at what Samuel R Delany's Nova did to him as a child.

"I gave a copy of Nova to an early creative writing teacher of mine when she asked us to bring in material we admired. At the next class, she handed it back and said dismissively, 'It’s a young man’s book.'"

And she's still teaching creative writing, no doubt.



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Double your nerd pleasure
A gallery of Ace sci-fi double-novel covers. I think I had some of these as a young 'un.

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First it was the heat death of the universe, now it's the Singularity?
Sci-fi writers Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross ponder the future.


I take advantage of a rare break in their conversation to ask, "Would the Singularity be the first such event in human history?" Collaborating on an answer, the two cite revolutionary developments such as the birth of language and the dawn of agriculture but soon agree that the Singularity would surpass all these in intensity. "The Singularity is pretty thermonuclear in terms of its finality," Doctorow says later. "It's apocalyptic in every sense of the word." Doctorow's dramatics are easier to digest in light of what Vinge has said of the Singularity: "Shortly after [it occurs], the human era will be ended"--the Singularity will usher in the "posthuman" era.


I, for one, welcome our new machine overlords.

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Where's Zamyatin?
The Guardian polls scientists for a top-10 SF writers list. I just finished books by Tony Daniel and Richard Morgan, and I expect to see them on the next list.

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Sci-fi-di

Is sci-fi dying? Hm. Eschatological musings from a sci-fi writer? Who'd of guessed it. Does anyone else think Rebecca Caldwell is just dreamy? Bookish. Good writer. Covers sci-fi. Gosh, if she's ever been in the Silver Snail, I think I'm in love. (And in our brief email exchange of yesterday morning, Caldwell slaps her head over the "Fahrenheit 411" typo, so save the sarcasm brother and sister nerds and let's give her the benefit of the doubt on this one.)



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Robert Sawyer came across as very intelligent and realistic in this piece.

Sawyer comes across like that in most everything he does. He's the real thing.

Social future
Locus asks six sci-fi writers to predict the future of society.


"Where are we going? If Kerry should be elected, back to the Clintonian middle. But if Bush is re-elected, straight into the worst fascist shitter this country has ever experienced. We're on a cusp like that of the Roman Republic about to degenerate into the Empire. Though in many ways it has already."

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Sci-Fi Wars 2: The Illiterate Menace
Michel Basilieres follows up on his controversial column on Philip K. Dick.


Part of my desire to do this column was to talk about the writers I admire and read with pleasure, something that as far as I know, no other non-SF writer has done--at least not regularly. Weíve seen Jonathan Lethem praising Philip K. Dick (although Lethem, like Kurt Vonnegut, began his career in the genre), Borges and Joyce Carol Oates talking about H. P. Lovecraft, Umberto Eco blurbing Samuel R. Delaney and perhaps a few other instances. But by and large literary writers donít read much SF. Or they read only whatís supposed to be the best, according to fans, and are put off. Or maybe they are keeping their "unsavoury" reading habits to themselves.

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Sci-fi master? Or literary master?
Michel Basilieres continues his sometimes contentious musings on sci-fi legends with a tribute to Jack Vance. I haven't read Vance myself, but Basilieres compares him to Calvino, and that can never be a bad thing.


Vance is one of the few writers I read in my youth whose work still gives me pleasure. He's known primarily as a stylist, and that's a pretty rare thing in science fiction, where what's usually expected of writers is that they deliver by Tuesday and include some action on the page.


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His bit about making a living off of writing is pretty funny too....
Neal Stephenson answers questions from Slashdot users in a sometimes hilarious, sometimes thoughtful interview. Consider, for example, his question of who would win a fight between Stephenson and William Gibson:


I was doing a reading/signing at White Dwarf Books in Vancouver. Gibson stopped by to say hello and extended his hand as if to shake. But I remembered something Bruce Sterling had told me. For, at the time, Sterling and I had formed a pact to fight Gibson. Gibson had been regrown in a vat from scraps of DNA after Sterling had crashed an LNG tanker into Gibson's Stealth pleasure barge in the Straits of Juan de Fuca. During the regeneration process, telescoping Carbonite stilettos had been incorporated into Gibson's arms. Remembering this in the nick of time, I grabbed the signing table and flipped it up between us. Of course the Carbonite stilettos pierced it as if it were cork board, but this spoiled his aim long enough for me to whip my wakizashi out from between my shoulder blades and swing at his head. He deflected the blow with a force blast that sprained my wrist. The falling table knocked over a space heater and set fire to the store. Everyone else fled. Gibson and I dueled among blazing stacks of books for a while.

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The kind of future I want
Richard Morgan, author of the fun sci-fi noir Altered Carbon and its crazy sequel, Broken Angels, is interviewed over at Trashotron. Good news: Woken Furies, the latest Takieshki Kovacs novel, is on the way.

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Okay, this has to stop. See, first you post the Stephenson thing a few days after I'd discovered and read Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver. Then you post the Morgan thing a few days after I discovered and read Altered Carbon.

If it's like we're in your head... Maybe we are.

Well, there's certainly lots of room — and it's not as I use it very much. So just make yourselves at home, but try not to wake me up. None of us want that.

A little Samuel R. Delany could hurt no one

Except Samuel R. Delany, it seems. Also, don't forget Michel Basilières's early Outer Edge column covering his lifelong love of Delany's work.



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Richard Morgan snippets
Locus has excerpts from an interview with sci-fi writer Richard Morgan, including his thoughts on the upcoming film version of Altered Carbon.

I've seen an early draft script and I'm impressed with the amount they actually managed to get in. I was less impressed with the kind of ugly, disfiguring scar of morality they'd slashed across the whole thing.

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The invisible genre
The New Statesman argues H.G. Wells deserves more recognition for his sci-fi work. First time I've heard Shaw called "vile."

Between 1895 and 1898, H G Wells wrote four science fiction masterpieces -- The Time Machine, The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. Then, as now, SF was seen as not quite respectable by literary types. The vile George Bernard Shaw sneered at Wells, and even his own literary patron, W E Henley, told him: "You could also do better -- far better & to begin with, you must begin by taking yourself more seriously." In our day, Margaret Atwood has turned her nose up at SF, preferring to call the novels she writes "speculative fiction", a truly toe-curling piece of petty snobbery.

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I've got a recording of HG Wells meeting Orson Welles, after OW did his radio adaptation of War of the Worlds, it's a brief interview, but painful to listen to, because the interviewer does most of the talking, even saying things like "These are two great men, and the less I say the better..." Sigh.

What do they talk about, Alex?

Fans of Lang's Metropolis may want to check out the film adaptation of Wells' Things to Come. It's very much an answer to Metropolis and both eerily prophetic (it predicted much of the Second World War) and wonderfully optimistic (the international league of engineers will save the world!). Good stuff.

They don't get much of a chance to talk, the interviewer goes on so long setting it up, and interrupting them, so you just pull your hair out wanting him to shut up, sadly. They talk a little about the upcoming release of Citizen Kane, and Hitler.

Wells sounds like he's a million years old, and Welles a confident, but charming much younger man. The interviewer goes on about stuff like... how their names are spelled differently! Right, thanks.

sorry, going back to the comment about peg wood's "oryx and crake". i think it's appalling how she calls it speculative fiction. check out her essay at oryxandcrake.com. she addresses why she didn't call the book science fiction. bah!

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/atwood/essay.html

"Like The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction, not a science fiction proper. It contains no intergalactic space travel, no teleportation, no Martians."

Seems like a limited definition of science fiction to me.

The Internet Review of Science Fiction
Annie over at Maud points us to this site, which has been around for a year and looks full of sci-fi goodness, including a piece about Mars sci-fi, a look at black sci-fi and an interview with Clive Barker, who has three houses to store his book!. And you have to love a website that lists its copy editors on the masthead. (Log in using shuriken@bookninja.com and waaaaa as the password.)

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Michael Moorcock's Christmas editorial
It's online over at Fantastic Metropolis, which is a very cool SF site.

For me visionary fiction is at its best when it references modernist concerns as well as the more objective concerns with which 'hard' science fiction is most commonly associated and which derives most of its literary machinery from Victorian popular fiction. For this is not exactly a 'post-modernist' form, as we see from the variety of material published here, but more an alternative to modernism. My generation did, to one degree or another, reject the concerns and methods of modernism, but the movement found its inspiration as much in pre-modernist work as post-modernist.

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Twas the night before Christmas...
...William Gibson style.

And while, from somewhere far above, now, came that sound, that persistent clatter, as though gunships disgorged whole platoons of iron-shod mercenaries, I could only wonder: who? Was it my estranged wife, The Lady Betty-Jayne Motel-6 Hyatt, Chief Eco-trustee of the Free Duchy of Wyoming? Or was it Cleatus "Mainframe" Sinyard himself, President of the United States and perpetual co-chairman of the Concerned Smart People's Northern Hemisphere Co-prosperity Sphere?

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Didn't get a calendar for Christmas?
You can always print off this sci-fi calendar (PDF link) complete with the birthdays of all the major writers and cover art from the old-school books.

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Some down-to-earth SF

The Mundane Manifesto. Do you like your scifi to take place here on earth a few years in the future? I do. And so do these guys. And they have a blog, too. (From Beatrice)



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The boy who owned the Bible

A very funny short story by SF writer Will Shetterly. (From BoingBoing)



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Speaking of Michel...

His new Outer Edge column is up at Maisonneuve. It deals with his love of and correspondence with sci-fi grandmaster Fritz Leiber.



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How much do SF/F writers make?
Hey, just as little as the rest of us!

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"Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read"

China Miéville gives us commie pinkos a list. I frightened by two things: how many of the male authors on here I haven't read, and how many of the female authors I have. I swear, I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body. (From BoingBoing, of course)



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There's no Culture in America
Iain Banks talks about the anti-America streak in contemporary UK SF. (Salon link)

It's hard to remind yourself it's not the American people; it's not everybody. It's a difficult thing: You've got to draw a line between the state, the figurehead, the symbols, like the flag or the president. And then it comes down to terms: Is it anti-American to be anti-capitalist? I certainly feel that the stuff I'm writing, the Culture stuff, in its own subtle way is anti-capitalist.

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Edited by author 03-07-2005 02:18 AM
The Internet Review of Science Fiction is pleased to announce the selection of its new editor in chief. Joy Ralph assumed her new position for the March 2005 edition of the internet-only outlet for news, reviews and criticism of speculative fiction.

Ralph's goals for the Review include fostering "the sort of critical discussion that is the hallmark of IROSF among the broader base of readers," and adding "some historical analysis to the mix, or perhaps some discussion of how authors and events influence each other." Ralph envisions IROSF as "a place with interesting, thoughtful...rigorous writing about Science Fiction and the community of its fans."

In November of 2004, John Frost relinquished his editorship of the Internet Review for personal reasons. The interim editions (including January’s 1st anniversary edition) were put out the magazine’s editorial staff under the direction of publisher/webmaster L. Blunt Jackson (bluejack).

Please join the Editors in welcoming Joy aboard. IROSF welcomes submissions on all aspects of SF and fantasy. For information on guidelines, payrate, formatting requirements and related issues, visit www.irosf.com/guidelines.qsml.


The Internet Review of Science Fiction is a forum for the serious exploration of the literature of the fantastic. IROSF publishes intelligent articles, essays, interviews, reviews, and criticism to illuminate the most interesting and important work in the genres of science fiction and fantasy.

"The first and greatest mythmaker of the machine age"

Jules Verne, author and likely time traveller.

Verne, the author, was incomparable. His 80 novels, written from 1854 till 1904, foreshadowed space travel (even identifying Florida as the launch-site for moon shots). They predicted, amongst other things, artificial satellites; large submarines; helicopters; television; video-players; and the development of plastics.
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Above all, Verne, the scientific visionary, understood little about science. He had a weed-like imagination and an inexhaustible capacity to absorb facts. He created a triumphant new genre of "novels of science" by lifting ideas from a voracious daily reading of scores of books, newspapers and scientific journals. As a result, Verne got a few things right and many things absurdly wrong. His moon-rocket is a giant shell implausibly fired from a gun. The rocket is fitted out internally with plush armchairs and cupboards.

See, how did he know I would build and fire that very rocket this very spring?? Coincidence? I think not, you earth-bound saps.



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Dick inducted

Philip K Dick is being inducted into the Sci-fi Hall of Fame (actually, just a circa 1975 rec-room full of broken Beta VCRs, Pong machines, and empty packets of Tang).


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Did you notice how, now that movie people are allowed in, the two movie people on the board had themselves immediately inducted?

The freightening thing is this happens so often now across our culture that everyone thinks it's normal.

Nation's bullies miss chance to tilt gene pool back in their favour...

Star Wars convention draws thousands of like-minded nerds. Fortunately, a concurrent nearby convention of lantern-jawed morons with violent self-esteem issues was kept behind just long enough for the herd-o-nerds to escape to their landspeeders.


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Set phasers to "cancel"

Star Trek is over and that fucking bigoted idiot Orson Scott Card couldn't be happier.

As science fiction, the series was trapped in the 1930s — a throwback to spaceship adventure stories with little regard for science or deeper ideas. It was sci-fi as seen by Hollywood: all spectacle, no substance.

Which was a shame, because science fiction writing was incredibly fertile at the time, with writers like Harlan Ellison and Ursula LeGuin, Robert Silverberg and Larry Niven, Brian W. Aldiss and Michael Moorcock, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke creating so many different kinds of excellent science fiction that no one reader could keep track of it all.

Little of this seeped into the original "Star Trek." The later spinoffs were much better performed, but the content continued to be stuck in Roddenberry's rut. So why did the Trekkies throw themselves into this poorly imagined, weakly written, badly acted television series with such commitment and dedication? Why did it last so long?

Here's what I think: Most people weren't reading all that brilliant science fiction. Most people weren't reading at all. So when they saw "Star Trek," primitive as it was, it was their first glimpse of science fiction. It was grade school for those who had let the whole science fiction revolution pass them by.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with him. It's just that, given his non-Star Trek commentary, I think he's a piece of shit. (From Bookslut)


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Ninja nerd gives sci-fi roundup

Peter's CBC article on contemporary scifi is up.

"The Gernsback Continuum" announced the death of classic sci-fi. The Vancouver-based Gibson and other members of the cyberpunk movement — mainly Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker — rejected the “architecture of broken dreams,” as a character in Gibson’s story calls it. In their novels and stories, the cyberpunk writers replaced the fanciful devices of alien invasions and jetpacks with more realistic and immediate concerns: multinational corporations run amok, the decay of urban centres, bioengineering, environmental collapse, addictions to technology. In the process, they created not only a cultural phenomenon but a brand new future.

As it turned out, the old future didn’t fade away as smoothly as the visions in Gibson’s story. In fact, as the cyberpunk movement shows the rust of its aging ideas, classic sci-fi is enjoying a sort of renaissance, thanks to a group of Canadian writers.


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Peggy on the whereabouts of angels and demons

Margaret Atwood defines her terms before dusting off the bullet points to defend SF.

If you're writing about the future and you aren't doing forecast journalism, you'll probably be writing something people will call either science fiction or speculative fiction. I like to make a distinction between science fiction proper and speculative fiction. For me, the science fiction label belongs on books with things in them that we can't yet do, such as going through a wormhole in space to another universe; and speculative fiction means a work that employs the means already to hand, such as DNA identification and credit cards, and that takes place on Planet Earth.

I guess that makes Oryx and Crake (a good book, btw) a hybrid between speculative fiction and scifi... Cause, aside from the blue-penised weirdos, there were DVD players in the distant future (which is odd, because there won't be DVD players in about 10 years).


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Apostles of mercy
Oh, how those Martians in War of the Worlds have changed.

Perhaps that idea of terrorists with a cause and defenders with doubts influenced the discomfort felt in the current film as well. At any rate, the novel was more rigorous. It saw the similarities between victim and attacker but also what was at stake and what effect the attacks ultimately had. Through them, Wells writes, humanity was robbed "of that serene confidence in the future which is the most fruitful source of decadence."

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Speaking of barely coherent nerds...

Sci-fi fans clutter up the streets of Glasgow, where it's getting harder by the day to tell the Mountain Dew-induced acne from the native alcohol-indooced pockmarks.


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Sci-fi round up

Aside from the fact that it begins with a grossly inaccurate statement, it's nice to see sci-fi being reviewed in the NYT, even if it is a jam-em-all-in omnibus.


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Free Sci-fi
Metafilter has a nice roundup of free SF shorts online, from the classics to contemporary stuff. Some excellent stories here. (Also another Metafilter Calvino roundup here.)

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A few thousand science fiction covers
For your viewing pleasure.

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SF writing guide

BoingBoing points us to a free guide for sci-fi writers. Free! I like free!


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Reinventing Utopia

Some neat thinking here.

The question, for thinkers like these, is how to revive the spirit of utopia - the current enfeeblement of which, Jameson claims, ''saps our political options and tends to leave us all in the helpless position of passive accomplices and impotent handwringers" - without repeating the errors of what Jacoby has dubbed ''blueprint utopianism," that is, a tendency to map out utopian society in minute detail. How to avoid, as Jameson puts it, effectively ''colonizing the future"?

Is the thought of a noncapitalist utopia even possible after Stalinism, after decades of anticommunist polemic on the part of brilliant and morally engaged intellectuals? Or are we all convinced, in a politically paralyzing way, that Margaret Thatcher had it right when she crowed that ''there is no alternative" to free-market capitalism?

(From BoingBoing)


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It's just like Warhammer 40,000
Has fantasy ruined sci-fi? SF writer Gregory Benford thinks it's ruining the whole damned world. Of course, the bloggers respond.

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Hey Alex... get in touch if that's really you...
donaldbarr@hotmail.com...
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