Too long under grey skies

[nangijala]

My unwritten NaNo story idea is consuming my brain and my life. I need to get working on it.

My brother (sci-fi snob) says pffffttt, you need to actually READ some sci-fi before you can start writing it. Even though the sci-fi elements are minor and mostly in the beginning.

Screw him. I've seen The Fly I and II and read that Stephen King short

Comments

[luna_norvegese]

The beauty of sci-fi to me is that you don't have to stick to the rules people have set to the genre before you. My favourite stories are those that actually rewrite rules, instead of sticking to them. :)

[nangijala]

You are so right. :)

Maybe it's just his way of trying to get me to read more sci-fi. He's always suggesting / lending me books. I rarely read any of them though... idk, it's just not my genre normally. :)

[theloa]

And to your brother I say pffffttt.

I've read tons of sci-fi - there are no rules. Write what you want.

[nangijala]

*nod* :P

Maybe it's just his way of trying to get me to read more sci-fi. He's always suggesting / lending me books. I rarely read any of them though... idk, it's just not my genre normally. :)

[theloa]

The thing is though - that every subgenre in fiction exists in sci-fi as well. There's the hard sci-fi, the action sci-fi, the romance sci-fi, the introspective sci-fi, the fluffy dragon-laden sci-fi, the literary sci-fi, the silly sci-fi (Douglas Adams), the erotic sci-fi, the Philip K. Dick sci-fi (drug induced hallucinations mostly) and so on. There's no reason why you'd like the same type of books as your brother just because they belong to umbrella term sci-fi.

If he's lent you any Ursula K. LeGuin or Connie Willis I'll shut up :)

That Stephen King story - was it "The Jaunt"? A great book which features teleportation prominently is Glasshouse by Charles Stross.

[theloa]

Oh and if you don't read any sci-fi just remember that you can't actually transfer the body - you just transfer the information to make a copy - which means you have to kill the original. Nobody's found a plausible method of making actual "beaming" work in sci-fi. Yes, The Fly is a lie.