[bookshare-discuss] Re: To all science fiction lovers
- From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:31:14 -0400
It depends. You can have hard SF which deals with the science in some detail
but is still a good read. Robert Charles Wilson does a fair bit of this. Travis
Taylor's pretty good too. Didacticism can be a major problem though.
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Even though some of those science fiction authors did have a background in
science I don't necessarily think it is important to being a science fiction
writer. I do think, though, that their background in science shows where their
interests were and I am pretty sure that those interests were both the cause of
their scientific education and their choice to write science fiction. To make
the science the foreground of the story, though, causes the story to be overly
didactic and so not a good story. The proper place for science in science
fiction is in the background, but still essential to the story.
Without doubt, though, it is really important to consider what kind of
science fiction one wants to write. There are so many subgenres and sub
subgenres. There is time travel; there is space opera; there is alternate
history; there is parallel worlds; there is utopia and anti-utopia. There are a
lot of overlap with other genres, romance, mystery and other similar types of
science fiction. One who has not explored the field might very well not even
know of all this. I would not want to actually discourage anyone, but if one
has not explored the field but wants to write it then that person is likely to
be surprised about how much exploring there is to do.
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[bookshare-discuss] Re: To all science fiction lovers
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Hi Nicole.
I've a couple of questions before I attempt an answer.
Why on earth (or off, as the subject is science fiction) would you want to
write in a genre whith which you are not familiar?
Which type of science fiction do you want to write? It really does make a
difference. I'm assuming you don't mean fantasy (where magic, werewolves and
vampires
rule). There's hard fast sci fi like Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Jerry
Parnelle, and Robert Silverberg rule the roost. These guys all have some
background
in science or engineering. They knew their astronomy and physics. Or there's
the speculative type of science fiction, denoted by people like J. G. Balard,
and Cordwainer Smith. These people had a very active imagination and a dream
of things as they could be in the future.
I've given you a few of the older authors but there are tons of them out
there, young authors climbing to the top, and old champions of the past. So,
have
fun reading.
Bob
"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder
what else you could do while you're down there." George Burns.
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Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 4:24 PM
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Hello all,
This is a genre I haven't explored much, and now I feel the need to do so
because I want to try writing it. It's difficult to know where to start, though,
because there's so much out there. So, if you had to pick one favorite book
or series, what would it be? Why would you choose it?
Cheers,
Nicole
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