The Mundane Manifesto

Post by **[Syl]** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 12:44 am

mundanesf.com/default.asp?id=2&mnu=2

The undersigned, being pissed off and needing a tight girdle of discipline to restrain our SF imaginative silhouettes, are temporarily united in the following actions:

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:58 am

Interesting. Would David Brin's Earth qualify? Been too long since I read it to be sure. But I'm reasonably sure it has not aliens etc.

--A

Post by **dennisrwood** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:02 am

steampunk?

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:09 am

Yeah, wasn't there a book by Banks with that theme?

--A

Post by **Edge** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 4:10 pm

Avatar wrote: Interesting. Would David Brin's Earth qualify? Been too long since I read it to be sure. But I'm reasonably sure it has not aliens etc.

Just read it... and it does indeed have aliens in it.

Post by **danlo** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:41 pm

The Difference Engine would prolly qualify...it was all about the "Steam", Steam driven computers that is...

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:42 am

Edge wrote:
Avatar wrote: Interesting. Would David Brin's Earth qualify? Been too long since I read it to be sure. But I'm reasonably sure it has not aliens etc.
Just read it... and it does indeed have aliens in it.

Oh well. Thanks.

Like I said, it's been a good few years. Only really remember the huge "conservation" domes well.

Danlo--Thanks for the title.

--A

Post by **dennisrwood** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:39 am

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine

www.enjolrasworld.com/Jess%20Nevins/Lea ... 0index.htm

www.monkeybrainbooks.com/

the third site is byJess Nevins, a friend of mine. get his books!
the last is a place to get them books.

Post by **Nav** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:59 am

Avatar wrote:Yeah, wasn't there a book by Banks with that theme?

--A

He's done a couple with that sort of theme. Against a Dark Background features civilization who make it into space only to discover that their system is so remote that they have no possibility of leaving it. They haven't found any aliens by the time the book is set either, although they have colonized some of the other planets within the Golter system.

Feersum Endjinn takes place on Earth too and without giving too much away, there's no indication that humans are a spacefaring race at that point in their history. Again no aliens, but some very well thought out technoligical creations.

Post by **Ainulindale** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:08 pm

the third site is by Jess Nevins, a friend of mine. get his books!
the last is a place to get them

Big fan of MonkeyBrain books who printed the excellent Michael Moorcock's Wizardry & Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy, and a book I reviewed earlier this year, a wonderful collection by Matthew Rossi Things That Never Were: Fantasies, Lunacies, and Entertaining Lies, who is also publishing an anthology I'm looking forward to in November, Adventure.

Post by **dennisrwood** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:23 pm

glad to find another fan, Ainulindale.

Post by **taraswizard** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:05 am

Infernokrusher grinds mundane manifesto to flour and then bakes bread with it? LOL crack myself up :lol

Post by **Loredoctor** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:13 am

What a fabulous list! It's the same of manifesto of my sci-fi setting.

Post by **taraswizard** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:23 pm

Air] by Geoff Ryman, a book that won this years Triptree award www.triptree.org and is on this year's Nebula ballot (IMO it has a good chance of winning), conforms to the Mundane Manifesto. I think Geoff Ryman is a subscriber and supporter of the Manifesto.

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:46 am

when I write fantasy i stick to mundane for the most part. i like to keep the magic off panel, like Lovecraft's beasts.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:18 am

sgtnull wrote:when I write fantasy i stick to mundane for the most part. i like to keep the magic off panel, like Lovecraft's beasts.

Well spoken.

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:36 am

thanks, if i ever finish the current projects(s) i'd like to start up on the KeyMen series.

Post by **taraswizard** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:27 pm

Is Robert Sawyer Mundane SF? AFAIK, some of his stories have time travel, and isn't time travel one of the fundamental no-nos of Mundania. Their list of don'ts is not only concerning space travel and aliens.

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:23 am

somebody ace this moron please.
and why this thread?

Post by **Vain** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:25 am

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

The Mundane Manifesto

The Mundane Manifesto

Mundane falls and is crushed to bits

Mundane SF

Robert Sawyer