Drawing The Line
First, courtesy of ursulav, the only review of Riddick you need to see. My testicles swelled an additional 10% from reading it. Yours will too.
This week in the comments to the book post, we had a guy asking if Jules Verne and Mary Shelley should be covered as Bronze Age SF, to which I replied with a curt "No".
( I'm going to expand on that a bit. )
This week in the comments to the book post, we had a guy asking if Jules Verne and Mary Shelley should be covered as Bronze Age SF, to which I replied with a curt "No".
( I'm going to expand on that a bit. )
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...if the theme is people dealing with bizarre problems in rigorous accordance with the best current understanding of how the Universe works, the earliest example I can think of offhand is the Iliad.
Swift did it too.
So did Melville.
Before the rise in popularity of the notion that "smart people aren't any more important than the people who work for them," this was called "literature". Gernsback was responsible for resurrecting it, and gave it a name of its own.
This has been my view for many years. It has the virtue of explaining why Marxist SF always turns out really stupid.
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