On Oct 2, 2004, at 3:41 PM, JDG wrote:
At 08:19 AM 8/25/2004 -0700 Nick Arnett wrote:Doesn't science fiction require *fictitious* science, i.e., stuff that hasn't been discovered/invented yet?
This would eliminate novels like _Alas, Babylon_, _On the Beach_, and _A
Canticle for Leibowitz_ - which I would be uncomfortable with.
Actually wouldn't _Leibowitz_ still make it under the SF bar? In the last section there's a kind of diaspora or colonization that takes place off Earth in spacecraft.
All I recall of _Babylon_ -- it's been years -- was that one of the characters was obsessed with tobacco. Civilization lay in ruins and billions were dead but he was worrying about stuffing his pipe ... which might have been Frank's point.
Never read the third. But if we're looking at apocalyptic fiction, what about films like _Failsafe_ or _Dr. Strangelove_ (which, I've always believes, is more accurate a picture of government than most non-satirical movies)? It's all very good drama but I don't know if I'd call it SF unless one means 'speculative fiction" -- which one could argue *all* fiction is. ;)
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