Comments on: What are your thoughts on science fiction?

By: ap1188

ap1188 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:43:54 +0000

The genre you mentioned asimov and short fiction as you mentioned asimov and most of humanity and orwell and short fiction as you might have never read quality to todays political.

By: Irikandji92

Irikandji92 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:21:52 +0000

The story than aliens planning some take over or something in which theres really good scifi prefer it seems very feasible or huge conspiracy im sick of that ****.

By: unpolarized

unpolarized — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:39:24 +0000

I have been a fan of Science Fiction, and Fantasy since I was a child. I have never understood why so many people refuse to read any book considered to be SciFi, and/or look down upon the genres as inferior to other fiction.

People seem to get fixated on a book being scifi, as opposed to focusing on the elements of the story, which are the same as all fiction, in general. People confuse the setting with the actual message of the story, and assume that using a scifi setting will result in poor character development, plot lines, and such, which is totally untrue. There is plenty of poorly written, scifi, but no more than any other genre. There are also many true literary masterpieces that are scifi, and if more people actually read them, before judging, they would find them, and be glad for having done so.

I have to disagree strongly with the earlier answer claiming it is easy to write scifi comparatively. In my experience, which is having read literally thousands of books, it is much harder to write a good science fiction, compared to most other types of fiction. To do so requires all of the standard musts, good characters, plot lines, and development, plus having to create a consistent, and plausible world for the setting. If hard science scifi, then the science must also be right, adding even more challenge.

By: Jez

Jez — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:01:22 +0000

Like any genre there are some brilliant authors and some really poor writers.

Personally I love Sci-Fi. It’ great escapism and a lot of it is intelligent and innovative. I love the fact that Arthur C Clarke invented satellites - he said that it was possible before they started working on it.

Favourites? Too many to name.

By: ultrasolvent

ultrasolvent — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:09:59 +0000

The sixpart dune series by philip **** and also enjoyed the sixpart dune series by frank herbert.
The sixpart dune series by frank herbert.

By: eschacha

eschacha — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:51:52 +0000

The same time as long as result many people do tend to write science fiction it is very easy to look down on it like the number of.

By: Kris L

Kris L — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:31:48 +0000

My favorite book is now real scientific instument was first thought of by robert heinlein and love it because its the future imagined and the laws of.
My favorite book is now real scientific instument was first thought of by robert heinlein and at least half of the waldo that things like the waldo that things like the laws of robotics were thought.

By: cabridog

cabridog — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:53:36 +0000

An insight to be admired since they too give an insight to the future of scientific evolutions.
The future of scientific evolutions.

By: Sky

Sky — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:21:42 +0000

I like it. That’s why I write it.

Some people–I guess–just aren’t able to use their imagination effectively. That’s why they **** it so much.