Science fiction is responsible in part for white washing corporations, and the cover up of mass murder.

Or am I misenterpreting Goatboy?

Have people like Goatchurch ever enjoyed a good story for the sake of it, ever?

Kress on the Mundane movement-

What do I think about this? I think Geoff Ryman has a point, but I also think that it needs looking at more closely. A book like, to take one example, Ursula LeGuin's masterpiece THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS uses many of those "tired SF tropes ( Read more... )

In which Geoff Ryman insults nearly every sci-fi fan and writer who ever lived.

1. Thanks for implying that we're all no better than children indulging in adolescent fantasies you asshole. These so-called childish dreams are what brings in cash and readership. Think about it next time before you insult an entire fandom, and I'm not speaking of ( Read more... )

http://mundane-sf.blogspot.com/2007/07/whats-benderite.html

We, however, are very likely to be one sorry grease spot, a thin 50,000 year layer in the rock strata, encapsulating all those childish dreams that we were somehow going to get off this planet, go ( Read more... )