Nah, I'll stick to Ringworld. I just got a bit carried away...Originally Posted by Scheherazade
/Claes
Nah, I'll stick to Ringworld. I just got a bit carried away...
/Claes
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
That's OK, Claes
So, a four-way tie?? We do need more votes!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I'm biding my time. My vote will come....
Well, please don't pout and sulk when I pick the book at the end of the month!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Why would you have to choose? I haven't even cast my vote yet.
The excitement is growing. The crowd is getting restless...
Going once...
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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'fraid not.
Going twice...
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I really didn't expect the feminist or environmentalist stories to win this poll, not that it was a smash win for LHoD and Oryx and Crake.
Though, Atwood hates, hates, hates to be called a science fiction author, she says its "speculative fiction" because her stories don't require new science, only the different application of the science we have today. Which is kind of true, there's nothing really sci-fi about the Handmaid's Tale, fundamentalist Christians taking over the US doesn't have much to do with science. Oryx and Crake does seem more in the sci-fi vein though.
Edit: Atwood and LeGuin may be fairly considered the most "literary" of the authors on the poll, that might account for it.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
I'd say Ballard was as 'literary' if not more than Atwood or LeGuin. Shame The Drowned World didn't get more votes, it's an excellent read and quite precient for it's age.
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The only reason LHoD didn't get my vote is because I've read it. I definitely have no problem giving it another read. It's a fascinating book.
Authors who complain about what they're work is categorized as kind of chaps my ***, though. Get over yourself, Atwood! Just be happy people read an appreciate your work. If it's called sci-fi, does it really matter that much?
Yeah, isn't it kind of strange that they're working on making a meat product that's a lot like "chickie-nobs?" I don't know if they had published anything about it before Atwood wrote about chickienobs, but it weirds me out. Sort of. I don't know. I'm not sure how I feel about lab grown meat. I'm torn on the subject.
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