I have been watching All Things Kirk and Spock lately, including some of the original-cast movies. Which means that recently I saw The Wrath of Khan. ( Spoilers for the second Star Trek movie )
Huh. I am a middle-button girl. Consistently. I suspect that has a lot to do with the SF authors I read most heavily when I was a teenager -- Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Sturgeon. According to the pictures they painted in my mind, we ain't there yet.
Heh, I was just thinking, all my buttons were top buttons and I wonder if it isn't age-related, not so much the scifi influences, since I read Heinlein too, but I remember black and white tv and when it went off at midnight, replaced by a high pitched tone and a static picture or, later, the waving flag, and I was a teen when we got our first microwave and we were such early adopters of the vcr technology that we bought a beta.
Not far off. I'm a little younger, but not much. Old enough to have seen Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in the theater. Young enough to have done so. 8-)
Oh! Can I add fashion disasters to the list? Oh, wait, I caught enough of the recent Music Awards to know what Lady Gaga wore. Never mind.
My future has a soundtrack filled with synthesizers and distortion.
I tend to be a middle-button girl myself, although I will admit to straying on one of the questions. And I started with a truckload of classic SF, too. (My early fascinating with Isaac Asimoc's I, Robot - but just the ones about Powell and Donovan - can be traced entirely to my incipient slasherness, but I liked other classic SF, too.)
Sad, really, because now I can't face re-reading a lot of the books I love, since it's gotten harder and harder for me to justify SHRIEKING MISOGYNY AND RACISM by saying, "But it's such a good story!" *sigh*
Sad, really, because now I can't face re-reading a lot of the books I love, since it's gotten harder and harder for me to justify SHRIEKING MISOGYNY AND RACISM by saying, "But it's such a good story!" *sigh*
Oh God, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and oh, Piers Anthony, anyone? A Spell For Chameleon was a great book until I, you know, became aware of things like, oh, ANYTHING to do with what it is to be a woman in this world.
Not just Scifi. I bought a copy of Kipling's Just So stories, because i remembered loving the Elephant's child and Taffi and her daddy inventing the alphabet.
and then I read them.
Wow, colonialism and imperialism and privilege, oh my. Some of the stories actually age fairly well. But not all.
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Oh! Can I add fashion disasters to the list? Oh, wait, I caught enough of the recent Music Awards to know what Lady Gaga wore. Never mind.
My future has a soundtrack filled with synthesizers and distortion.
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Sad, really, because now I can't face re-reading a lot of the books I love, since it's gotten harder and harder for me to justify SHRIEKING MISOGYNY AND RACISM by saying, "But it's such a good story!" *sigh*
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Oh God, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and oh, Piers Anthony, anyone? A Spell For Chameleon was a great book until I, you know, became aware of things like, oh, ANYTHING to do with what it is to be a woman in this world.
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and then I read them.
Wow, colonialism and imperialism and privilege, oh my. Some of the stories actually age fairly well. But not all.
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