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Does Fiction Need to Become Less Fictional?

19 pointsby juanplusjuanover 10 years ago

5 comments

naragover 10 years ago
I&#x27;d like the movies (and tv) become less fictional. I&#x27;m actually a fan of sci fi, BUT:<p>I can&#x27;t stand vampires, ghosts and family. I don&#x27;t like hyperspace drivers, wormholes, drive-by time travels, light sabers, spells, fate architectures, prophecies, ones, ancient and powerful beings, much more complex DNAs, 10% brain usage overflow, sound in space and losing the orbit just because the engine doesn&#x27;t work.<p>I don&#x27;t like superheros that don&#x27;t obbey basic physics laws and which powers come from some ridiculous explanation.<p>So yes, it seems I&#x27;m a &quot;hard&quot; sci fi fan and would love to se a movie or, better, a series that try to simply show 2065 as we really think it will be. Of course we&#x27;ll be wrong anyway, but alas.<p>Space minery, first colonies, gravitational dimorphism, migration politics, robots... there are plenty of current tech that will be veeery interesting in 50 years.<p>Instead studios keep on showing year 3000 with societies almost identical to present or, much worse, past.
paulannesleyover 10 years ago
&gt; Did another bookstore just close? Did you read the latest report on Americans’ reading habits? To the laptops!<p>followed immediately by this inline ad:<p>&gt; Try Newsweek for only $1.25 per week<p>… deliberate or accidental irony?
saraid216over 10 years ago
Do literary critics feel like they have nothing to do...?<p>That&#x27;s the only sane conclusion I seem able to come to from the article.
JeremyReimerover 10 years ago
Betteridge&#x27;s Law of Headlines holds up once again. The answer is emphatically &quot;no&quot;.
MisterShawnover 10 years ago
Bah.