people have a bunch of technology. Good Sci-Fi talks about what it does
to us as people, and makes a compelling point relevant to our own lives.
Bad Sci-Fi, on the other hand, gets serialized on the Sci-Fi channel.
I think the reason stories tend to follow this pattern has to do with
the fact so many good sci-fi writers are / were Roman Catholic. Every
denomination gets heavy doses of Bible stories growing up, but there is
so much more pageantry and poetry in the Catholic experience it lends
itself to this sort of imaginative effort.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:47 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Minority Report
> * spoiler alert, in case anyone cares *
>
> The premise of the story was pretty intense, that an event in
> the future can be predicted and prevented without temporal
> consequence. The way it played out as a morality tale,
> however, didn't appeal to me as much.
Don't _most_ SCI-FI stories come down to that? Ie, here is a new
technology
and here is how we relate to it....
-rc
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