On a darker note, Greg Egan once wrote a story where a company found a
way to encode the entire Koran in your junk DNA. Once enough people had
taken that option, it turmed out to be the means to propagate a deadly >epidemic.
I should track down his more recent books. He is, in my opinion, the
most original SF writer of our time.
On a darker note, Greg Egan once wrote a story where a company found a
way to encode the entire Koran in your junk DNA. Once enough people had
taken that option, it turmed out to be the means to propagate a deadly >epidemic.
On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:33:50 +1100, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:
On a darker note, Greg Egan once wrote a story where a company
found a way to encode the entire Koran in your junk DNA. Once
enough people had taken that option, it turmed out to be the means
to propagate a deadly epidemic.
I should track down his more recent books. He is, in my opinion,
the most original SF writer of our time.
Any titles you particularly recommend?
On 29/01/26 13:51, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:33:50 +1100, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:
On a darker note, Greg Egan once wrote a story where a company
found a way to encode the entire Koran in your junk DNA. Once
enough people had taken that option, it turmed out to be the means
to propagate a deadly epidemic.
I should track down his more recent books. He is, in my opinion,
the most original SF writer of our time.
Any titles you particularly recommend?
Two short story collections: Axiomatic and Luninous. If you like what
you see, move on to the novel Luminous. Those, in any case, were the
books I particularly liked.
On 29/01/26 15:11, Peter Moylan wrote:
On 29/01/26 13:51, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:33:50 +1100, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:
On a darker note, Greg Egan once wrote a story where a company
found a way to encode the entire Koran in your junk DNA. Once
enough people had taken that option, it turmed out to be the means
to propagate a deadly epidemic.
I should track down his more recent books. He is, in my opinion,
the most original SF writer of our time.
Any titles you particularly recommend?
Two short story collections: Axiomatic and Luninous. If you like what
you see, move on to the novel Luminous. Those, in any case, were the
books I particularly liked.
Sorry, the novel I meant was Distress.
On 29/01/26 13:51, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:33:50 +1100, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:
On a darker note, Greg Egan once wrote a story where a company
found a way to encode the entire Koran in your junk DNA. Once
enough people had taken that option, it turmed out to be the means
to propagate a deadly epidemic.
I should track down his more recent books. He is, in my opinion,
the most original SF writer of our time.
Any titles you particularly recommend?
Two short story collections: Axiomatic and Luninous. If you like what
you see, move on to the novel Luminous. Those, in any case, were the
books I particularly liked.
On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:33:50 +1100, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:
On a darker note, Greg Egan once wrote a story where a company found a
way to encode the entire Koran in your junk DNA. Once enough people had
taken that option, it turmed out to be the means to propagate a deadly
epidemic.
I should track down his more recent books. He is, in my opinion, the
most original SF writer of our time.
Any titles you particularly recommend?
On 29/01/26 13:51, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:33:50 +1100, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:
On a darker note, Greg Egan once wrote a story where a company
found a way to encode the entire Koran in your junk DNA. Once
enough people had taken that option, it turmed out to be the means
to propagate a deadly epidemic.
I should track down his more recent books. He is, in my opinion,
the most original SF writer of our time.
Any titles you particularly recommend?
Two short story collections: Axiomatic and Luninous. If you like what
you see, move on to the novel Luminous. Those, in any case, were the
books I particularly liked.
PS For just about any SF author I can think of, I would recommend
starting with short stories. Getting the author in bite-sized chunks is
an excellent way of finding out whether you like his writing.
given a 5-star rating to:
McCarthy, Cormac. 2009. The road.
given a 5-star rating to:
Miller, Walter M. 1993 [1959] A canticle for Leibowitz.
Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
On 31/01/2026 06:37, Titus G wrote:_and_subatomic_particles>
A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romancef
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
[A.U.E.] I like 'handwavium'. It should be up there with 'unobtainium', 'administratium', Lunarium and Kryptonite. Alas, it's missing from this
Wiki list.
More here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_elements,_materials,_isotopes
Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love >story, it's nice IMO.
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love story, it's nice IMO.
The True Melissa wrote:
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love
story, it's nice IMO.
Agreed. Yet some rascally readers repress the romance as they try to
twist the story into thirty-six year old Henry grooming six year old
Clare.
This perverted plot premise requires omission of how twenty year old
year old Clare initially stalks twenty-eight year Henry at Newberry
Library when the Catholic soulmates first meet.
The True Melissa wrote:
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love
story, it's nice IMO.
Agreed. Yet some rascally readers repress the romance as they try to
twist the story into thirty-six year old Henry grooming six year old
Clare.
This perverted plot premise requires omission of how twenty year old
year old Clare initially stalks twenty-eight year Henry at Newberry
Library when the Catholic soulmates first meet.
The True Melissa wrote:
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love
story, it's nice IMO.
Agreed. Yet some rascally readers repress the romance as they try to
twist the story into thirty-six year old Henry grooming six year old
Clare.
This perverted plot premise requires omission of how twenty year old
year old Clare initially stalks twenty-eight year Henry at Newberry
Library when the Catholic soulmates first meet.
On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:08:45 +1100, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:
PS For just about any SF author I can think of, I would recommend
starting with short stories. Getting the author in bite-sized chunks is
an excellent way of finding out whether you like his writing.
Agreed.
There are very few full-length SF novels I've really liked. Out of
curiocity I checked and found I'd read more than a thought I had -- I
thought I'd mostly read short stories. But these are the ones I've
given a 5-star rating to:
Lewis, C.S. 1960. That hideous strength.
Lewis, C.S. 1952. Out of the silent planet.
Miller, Walter M. 1993 [1959] A canticle for Leibowitz.
Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Lewis, C.S. 1953. Voyage to Venus Perelandra.
Huxley, Aldous. 1994 [1932] Brave new world.
Orwell, George. 1984.
James, P.D. 1992. The children of men.
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story.
story, it's nice IMO.
The True Melissa wrote:
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love
story, it's nice IMO.
Agreed. Yet some rascally readers repress the romance as they try to
twist the story into thirty-six year old Henry grooming six year old
Clare.
This perverted plot premise requires omission of how twenty year old
year old Clare initially stalks twenty-eight year Henry at Newberry
Library when the Catholic soulmates first meet.
"Thou doth Protestant too much, methinks."
On 1/02/26 05:31, Don wrote:
The True Melissa wrote:
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance >>> with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love
story, it's nice IMO.
Agreed. Yet some rascally readers repress the romance as they try to
twist the story into thirty-six year old Henry grooming six year old Clare.
It is a long time since I read it but wasn't that aspect there?
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Don wrote:
The True Melissa wrote:
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance >> >>> with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love >> >> story, it's nice IMO.
Agreed. Yet some rascally readers repress the romance as they try to
twist the story into thirty-six year old Henry grooming six year old
Clare.
It is a long time since I read it but wasn't that aspect there?
It's also been a long time since I read it, but in my memory, he is
careful to treat her like the child she is during that scene.
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love >story, it's nice IMO.
The True Melissa wrote:
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love >>story, it's nice IMO.
It's more than a love story. It's based o fictional science, without
which it wouldn't work. I enjoyed it too,
On 01/02/26 15:04, Titus G wrote:
My protest is principally with genre impersonation.
Ah, yes. Like when the shelf in the bookshop says "Science Fiction" and
all the books turn out to be fantasy. That's really annoying.
On 01/02/26 15:04, Titus G wrote:
My protest is principally with genre impersonation.
Ah, yes. Like when the shelf in the bookshop says "Science Fiction" and
all the books turn out to be fantasy. That's really annoying.
Would you put Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" in crime fiction?
It's certainly a whodunit, but it's also a great deal more.
Lewis, C.S. 1960. That hideous strength.
Lewis, C.S. 1952. Out of the silent planet.
Lewis, C.S. 1953. Voyage to Venus Perelandra.
Miller, Walter M. 1993 [1959] A canticle for Leibowitz.
On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:32:45 +0200
Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
Lewis, C.S. 1960. That hideous strength.
Lewis, C.S. 1952. Out of the silent planet.
Lewis, C.S. 1953. Voyage to Venus Perelandra.
"That Hideous Strength" is kind of a mess, but an audacious one. His
other two "Space Trilogy" books are fine indeed, and all three had a
major influence on me as a writer. A fascinating blend of old-school "planetary romance," theology/mysticism, and social commentary.
There is a piece by James Thurber about a lady he met in his hotel
who complained that Shakespear's Macbeth was printed in the same
format as her beloved - for travel reading - detective stories,
then after reading it criticized it for the improbable murderer.
Questioned, she claimed the natural bad person would have been
ZnpQhss.
On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:32:45 +0200
Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
Lewis, C.S. 1960. That hideous strength.
Lewis, C.S. 1952. Out of the silent planet.
Lewis, C.S. 1953. Voyage to Venus Perelandra.
"That Hideous Strength" is kind of a mess, but an audacious one. His
other two "Space Trilogy" books are fine indeed, and all three had a
major influence on me as a writer. A fascinating blend of old-school >"planetary romance," theology/mysticism, and social commentary.
"That Hideous Strength" is kind of a mess, but an audacious one.
His other two "Space Trilogy" books are fine indeed, and all three
had a major influence on me as a writer. A fascinating blend of
old-school "planetary romance," theology/mysticism, and social
commentary.
As you can see from my ordering, I like "That Hideous Strength" best.
If you take "genre" beyond the publishers and booksellers ones, and
divide things into subgenres as some like to do, then it comes closer
to the genre of Charles Williams's novels, which I also like, but are definitely fantasy rather than science fiction, and that is the
element that predominates in THS.
Back to Lewis, the scene at the end of "Out of the Silent Planet" when
Ransom tries to translate Weston's bloviating for the Oyarsa of
Malacandra is a magnificent send-up of colonialism, and Devine, as
I've already mentioned, was probably based on Cecil Rhodes, a
budinessman turned politician, one of whose spiritual descendants is undoubtedly Donald Trump.
For more on that see here: <https://khanya.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/the-cult-of-rhodes/>
or here: <https://khanya.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/that-hideous-strength-and-rhodes-must-fall/>
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Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love story, it's nice IMO.
(And it has been *endlessly* amusing, over the years, to hear so many >starchy, moralizing parents of "Evangelical" conservative persuasionJust because they laud it doesn't mean they've actually /read/ it. Or
laud a series that has this liberation from conformity accomplished
with Bacchus and his nymphs in the procession...!)
On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:32:45 +0200
Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
Lewis, C.S. 1960. That hideous strength.
Lewis, C.S. 1952. Out of the silent planet.
Lewis, C.S. 1953. Voyage to Venus Perelandra.
"That Hideous Strength" is kind of a mess, but an audacious one. His
other two "Space Trilogy" books are fine indeed, and all three had a
major influence on me as a writer. A fascinating blend of old-school "planetary romance," theology/mysticism, and social commentary.
Miller, Walter M. 1993 [1959] A canticle for Leibowitz.
And *speaking* of audacious sci-fi with a shot of theology/mysticism! Magnificent work, should be required reading.
Perelandra is a very strange book.
The whole Space Trilogy is deeply imbued with Lewis's religous
outlook.
(And it has been *endlessly* amusing, over the years, to hear so
many starchy, moralizing parents of "Evangelical" conservative
persuasion laud a series that has this liberation from conformity accomplished with Bacchus and his nymphs in the procession...!)
Just because they laud it doesn't mean they've actually /read/ it. Or anything else he wrote.
On 2/2/2026 11:04 AM, John Ames wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:32:45 +0200
Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
Lewis, C.S. 1960. That hideous strength.
Lewis, C.S. 1952. Out of the silent planet.
Lewis, C.S. 1953. Voyage to Venus Perelandra.
"That Hideous Strength" is kind of a mess, but an audacious one. His
other two "Space Trilogy" books are fine indeed, and all three had a
major influence on me as a writer. A fascinating blend of old-school
"planetary romance," theology/mysticism, and social commentary.
Miller, Walter M. 1993 [1959] A canticle for Leibowitz.
And *speaking* of audacious sci-fi with a shot of theology/mysticism!
Magnificent work, should be required reading.
Perelandra is a very strange book.
The whole Space Trilogy is deeply imbued with Lewis's religous
outlook.
Williams's novels are all fantasy set in *this* world, with the
irruption of powers from beyond. If you haven't read any of his, I
recommend starting with "War in Heaven" or "The Place of the Lion".
I first encountered Narnia just at the time that South Africa had
become a police state, so Captain Maugrim and the statues in the
witch's castle made immediate sense to me. I had read the space
trilogy and Charles Williams several years before, when a lot of the symbolism went over my head, but rereading them after Narnia made a
lot of other things fall into place.
On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 12:07:27 -0500
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
Perelandra is a very strange book.
The whole Space Trilogy is deeply imbued with Lewis's religous
outlook.
I'd forgotten 'til revisiting it some years ago that there's a whole
sequence at the end that almost plays like a Christian transcendental- >meditation experience. Very strange book, indeed; captivatingly so.
On Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:05:10 +0200
Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
Williams's novels are all fantasy set in *this* world, with the
irruption of powers from beyond. If you haven't read any of his, I
recommend starting with "War in Heaven" or "The Place of the Lion".
Good to know =^_^=
I first encountered Narnia just at the time that South Africa had
become a police state, so Captain Maugrim and the statues in the
witch's castle made immediate sense to me. I had read the space
trilogy and Charles Williams several years before, when a lot of the
symbolism went over my head, but rereading them after Narnia made a
lot of other things fall into place.
It's something I never imagined having personal context for, but here
we are... :/
It's the one I like least of Lewis's "space trilogy", but it has some interesting stuff on the banality of evil.
If you want to know more about that, see here:
<https://khanya.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/tales-from-dystopia-x-the-banality-of-evil/>
... was probably based on Cecil Rhodes, a bu[s]inessman turned
politician ...
... has some interesting stuff on the banality of evil.
On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 12:07:27 -0500
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
Perelandra is a very strange book.
The whole Space Trilogy is deeply imbued with Lewis's religous
outlook.
I'd forgotten 'til revisiting it some years ago that there's a whole
sequence at the end that almost plays like a Christian transcendental- meditation experience. Very strange book, indeed; captivatingly so.
On Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:05:32 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
... was probably based on Cecil Rhodes, a bu[s]inessman turned
politician ...
Calling Cecil Rhodes a rCLbusinessman turned politicianrCY is like ... I donrCOt know ... like referring to Genghiz Khan as a pastoral herder
turned tribal chieftain ...
Remember that the entirety of the territory called rCLRhodesiarCY in his
name included both present-day Zimbabwe and South Africa (n|-e
rCLSouthern RhodesiarCY).
In article <10ne70n$1st45$1@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D|ore4raoOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:05:32 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
... was probably based on Cecil Rhodes, a bu[s]inessman turned
politician ...
Calling Cecil Rhodes a |ore4+obusinessman turned politician|ore4_ is like ... I
don|ore4raot know ... like referring to Genghiz Khan as a pastoral herder turned tribal chieftain ...
Remember that the entirety of the territory called |ore4+oRhodesia|ore4_ in his
name included both present-day Zimbabwe and South Africa (n|a--e |ore4+oSouthern Rhodesia|ore4_).
Wrong. Zimbabwe was Southern Rhodesia and Zambia was Northern Rhodesia.
On Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:12:04 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
... has some interesting stuff on the banality of evil.
That was a term from Hannah Arendt. She of rCLThe Origins Of >TotalitarianismrCY.
How (painfully) far do you want to go with relevance to current
events?
On Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:05:32 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
... was probably based on Cecil Rhodes, a bu[s]inessman turned
politician ...
Calling Cecil Rhodes a rCLbusinessman turned politicianrCY is like ... I >donrCOt know ... like referring to Genghiz Khan as a pastoral herder
turned tribal chieftain ...
Remember that the entirety of the territory called rCLRhodesiarCY in his
name included both present-day Zimbabwe and South Africa (n|-e
rCLSouthern RhodesiarCY).
rCLThe title of a book by Tolstoy has been translated as What Then
Should We Do? My faith gives me an answer. It would be terrible
to think that life has no meaning, that we are going nowhere,
and that what we do until we die is a matter of indifference.
That is what tortures so many today.rCY
<https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/justice-alito-warns-seminarians-religious-liberty-is-in-danger>
WHAT THEN SHOULD WE DO? appears in Luke 3:10rCo14. Tolstoy's
non-fictional work describes the Russian social conditions in 1886.
It begins with a Moscow beggar being thrown into jail for begging.
WHAT THEN SHOULD WE DO will be the next book heard (eg read) by me.
With regard to the infiltration of Romance into Science Fiction,
most Science Fiction writers of the '60s kept women in the kitchen.
If The Time Traveller's Wife was marketed as Romance, it would be an
early example of an infiltration of Fantasy masquerading as Science
Fiction. And, of course, Fantasy has no place in the reality of
Romance. I'll get my coat.
I don't think it would take much to add a butler to the story. You
would expect a palace to have a full staff.
I'd forgotten 'til revisiting it some years ago that there's a whole sequence at the end that almost plays like a Christian
transcendental- meditation experience. Very strange book, indeed; captivatingly so.
It does. I can't remember if that's before or after all the human
and animal couples simultaneously decide to f*ck. (The human couples
do it in different rooms - they're decent Christians, after all).
On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 17:03:26 +1300, Titus G wrote:Perhaps similar to what /Superfolks/ did way back in 1977 with comic
With regard to the infiltration of Romance into Science Fiction,
most Science Fiction writers of the '60s kept women in the kitchen.
If The Time Traveller's Wife was marketed as Romance, it would be an
early example of an infiltration of Fantasy masquerading as Science
Fiction. And, of course, Fantasy has no place in the reality of
Romance. I'll get my coat.
Talking about genre drift, youAd be aware of the traditional snobbish >attitude towards SF from aficionados of omainstreamo or oseriouso
fiction. And the old stereotypes prevalent among them of SF being
about rockets and spaceships, bla bla bla.
ThatAs why it was amusing to me to find out that the winner of the
2024 Booker Prize is a novel called oOrbitalo, set on the
International Space Station ><https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/orbital>.
So rockets and spaceships are now part of mainstream fiction? And the
topmost level of arty mainstream fiction, at that? Of course they are!
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