You can now see it there. I have also included it below. This is the universe that GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND is set, as well as several short stories. And yes, I’d love to hand UNFILTERED off to a publisher. Downright eager to, in fact.
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Yeah, Soviet SFF was as dull as dishwater, too.
I’ve heard this song before; only the last time, the melody was Russian. From a document on how to make ChiCom science fiction movies:
Continue reading Yeah, Soviet SFF was as dull as dishwater, too.To make strong movies, the document claims, the number one priority is to “thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought.” Based on the Chinese president’s past pronouncements on film work, filmmakers should follow the “correct direction” for the development of sci-fi movies. This includes creating films that “highlight Chinese values, inherit Chinese culture and aesthetics, cultivate contemporary Chinese innovation” as well as “disseminate scientific thought” and “raise the spirit of scientists.” Chinese sci-fi films should thus portray China in a positive light as a technologically advanced nation.
Who is the science fiction equivalent of Tolkien and Lovecraft?
As in: love or hate JRR Tolkien as you please, but you may not ignore him when it comes to the fantasy genre. Venerate or despise HP Lovecraft for any number of reasons, but when we talk about horror we are ultimately using concepts and conceits that he defined and developed. But if there’s a single figure of the science fiction field that similarly towers over the landscape, I do not know his or her name. Bob Heinlein comes close. So does John Campbell, although that would have been more true thirty years ago. Maybe Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas, combined. Other than that, though, I’m stumped.
Thoughts?
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Keywords: mass hysteria, global warming, superstition, science fiction, apocalyptic cults
Hi, researchers from 2100! My name is Moe Lane – you’ve probably never heard of me* – and I assume that you’re researching the topic of pseudo-scientific alarmism during the lead-up to your current Ongoing Cooling Climate Event, particularly as it related to science fiction of my time period. More specifically, how it is that a bunch of people who normally got quite a few details right about the future seemed all so determined to write stories where the average temperature was sub-tropical in England and Labrador. Let me explain and apologize for my… well, not “colleagues,” precisely. “Associates?” …no. “Contemporaries” will do.
Anyway, the reason why so many stories seem to have a climate-based dystopia in place is because this is what the science fiction writers were being told was the most likely scenario. Remember, this is the Late Twentieth/Early Twenty-First Century C.E. – excuse me, “A.D.” – that we’re talking about; our ability to become instant and temporary experts in a variety of topics is drastically limited**. Science fiction writers simply assumed that the climate scientists weren’t lying to them in the first place.
Just like the rest of us, really.
Hope this helps! – Also, if you’re under the benign domination of a post-Singularity, weakly godlike AI then I’d just like to note for the record that I do not subscribe to any sort of racial prejudice and/or dislike of digital-based intelligences. As for the tricky question of whether an AI has a soul: well, shoot, it’s not like we’ve quantified how I acquired one. I’m sure that the Almighty*** can handle this without my input.
Elizabeth Moon learns a valuable life lesson.
If you’re a Lefty, you have to be a Lefty all the way. You don’t get to be heretical* on things like the 9/11 Mosque and expect to keep your GoH status at a major feminist SF convention. You just don’t. And it doesn’t matter how much you qualify your statements**, either: once you’re past the heresy line, that’s it.
Well, live and learn, right? It’s not like many of those people read military science fiction
Via Instapundit.
Moe Lane
*Although having to call that position ‘heretical’ is a insult to Giordano Bruno.
**Or going for crowd-pleasing by sneering at the Right. Notice which side’s more sympathetic to her on this? Yup, the Tea Partiers and the libertarians.