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b0rsuk · 05-14-2012, 03:58 AM

Xanthe, I don't really agree with you.

Hainlein usually (always?) has male protagonists, yet they are so gallant and knightly towards women it makes me sick. I have reasons to believe women like Heinlein's books. I'm reading "Moon is a harsh mistress" and that may be my last Heinlein book.
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The way I see it, science fiction should be more or less concept-based. Character development is secondary for a genre that has science in its name. If you write a book to focus on characters, setting doesn't really matter, it's interchangeable. On a second thought, books placed in past centuries might be interesting because they can show morality of the era. Few science fiction books have interesting new views on that. "Brave New World" may be one. "Solaris" is also about human characters, and it couldn't be written without SF.

05-14-2012, 03:58 AM	#84
b0rsuk meles meles Posts: 109 Karma: 163588 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Persepolis Device: Pocketbook InkPad 3	Xanthe, I don't really agree with you. Hainlein usually (always?) has male protagonists, yet they are so gallant and knightly towards women it makes me sick. I have reasons to believe women like Heinlein's books. I'm reading "Moon is a harsh mistress" and that may be my last Heinlein book. --------------- The way I see it, science fiction should be more or less concept-based. Character development is secondary for a genre that has science in its name. If you write a book to focus on characters, setting doesn't really matter, it's interchangeable. On a second thought, books placed in past centuries might be interesting because they can show morality of the era. Few science fiction books have interesting new views on that. "Brave New World" may be one. "Solaris" is also about human characters, and it couldn't be written without SF. Last edited by b0rsuk; 05-14-2012 at 04:01 AM.