Kevin's Watch

Sans SRD cause that's not fair - meaning, look at the genre as a whole without it's best work - what's your fav fiction genre?

(this may be the most pointless thread ever dropped, but we'll see)

Probably a tossup between fantasy and regular fiction. I've read some sci-fi but it doesn't really ring my chimes these days.

I'm fairly hard core sci fi - I like stuff that pushes the limits from the limits of expansion to comps integrated into human intellegence to quantum madness and contact with aliens.

I used to only read sci-fi...old Hugo/Nebula winners, my Dad has a large collection, got me into them growing up. He's the one who introduced me to the Chrons...his friend did the like...ahh, virgin memories....

The only recent sci-fi I've read is one of Baxter's mind-numbing books.

I'm right now re-reading Peter F Hamilton's Naked God. The dead coming back pretty much in a Buck Rogers utopia is awesome.

why did they wait until 'the future' to 'come back'...if they always 'existed elsewhere'?

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:why did they wait until 'the future' to 'come back'...if they always 'existed elsewhere'?

Are you talking about the Night's Dawn trilogy?

The spirits/souls could not enter our universe until one event happened. Being, an alien getting too interested in a satanic ritual.

And one is supposed to take this...seriously?

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:
And one is supposed to take this...seriously?

It's good space opera, despite the weird supernatural (explained by quantum mechanics) science mix, gratuitous sex, and the worst use of deus ex machina in science fiction.

I know a little about quantum mechanics...what's the scoop on that part?

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:I know a little about quantum mechanics...what's the scoop on that part?

As far as I can recall, organic minds imprint themselves on a quantum field. When someone dies, they find their consciousness existing in a void with other 'souls'. Because that's all there is - darkness - they 'rape' each other's memories for eternity.

That's a little....stupid. At least he can write a good story I heard, regardless of the overall ideas.

Ya know, I was recently thinking about the quantum field and how teleportation might involve a quantum imprint, rematerialized somewhere else...a good 'wormhole' effect for a scifi story that's not so...gay?

Soft to Sociological SF, where there's less emphasis on technological accuracy and more on the feelings and inner-workings of the characters. Not to say I don't like seeing profound new technologies or breathtaking usages of their implementation: I just like stuff that blurs the boundary between "accepted" lit. and "regular" sci-fi, such as Philip K. Dick (who should appear in college text books in the next generation or so, damn it).

I also like post-apocalyptic or barren wastelands (The Road or The Left hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin). Even her Earthsea stories, where the sea dominates most of life. Anything where there's some overwhelming fact of existence that makes a better life impossible or radically different from our own.

Alternate histories. Basically: contemporary, near-future, alternate history, or extremely removed (thousands of years). I like staying close to home, most of the time. Man in the High Castle is an excellent alternate history with emphasis on the sociological aspects of its characters.

Left Hand was really good. Haven't read the other two, though. Film of The Road looks interesting...except it doesn't seem like there's much to it.

Good Fiction.

Murrin wrote:Good Fiction.

Shut up. You don't even think Pluto's a planet.

lol

Ive always been a fan of the post apocalypse genre. When all the big mistakes have already been made , the little decisions become so much more crucial.

Mr. Broken wrote:Ive always been a fan of the post apocalypse genre. When all the big mistakes have already been made , the little decisions become so much more crucial.

noice

I voted 'hard sci-fi'. I adore science fiction in general, but hard SF is like a drug to me.