For a while now I have been searching for a metaphorical equivalent to landscape architecture in the hopes of getting a grip on what landscape architects actually do. I may have found my answer.
Recently I was discussing profession with some friends -- one of them an engineering student -- when we got onto the question about why landscape
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Which brings up a question for me: am I thinking of a very specific sub-genre of sci-fi? It seems I may be. I'm not thinking of, for example, an AI taking over a spaceship or a country's government (Project Maldon). I'd say I'm thinking of society and environment "imagineers": those who imagine stories in alien and fantastic landscapes, other planets, other, possibly very distant and future cities and their designs. Know what I mean?
That being said, the playwright I think proves to be another contender. Damnit, though, I wish there was more sci-fi in theatre (or am I ignorant?)
(when/where did you act?)
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And this is probably why there is very little sci-fi theater. Since hard sci-fi deals not with characters but with tech, why have actors? They want to live character lives, dammit!
(I did a bit of stage craft in high school and college. Later made the switch into film and video media. Later realized I sucked. ;-) )
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"Asimov and Clarke" -- this is probably why I like Clarke so much, especially his Rama series.
Your Dad taught Sci-fi? That's spectacular. My Dad teaches only economics. The former is interesting and exciting. The latter is just interesting (at least as far as the first few pages).
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