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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Mm-hum. Starship Troopers is something everyone should read. Like Ender's Game (although not it's sequels), it's far less important that it is sci-fi than it is an important story.
"I'd like to claify that Orwell was not pro socialist"
Neither are MacLeod's Star Fraction books. They discuss various forms of anarchy, communism and collective societies. And... your blunt dismissal of a lot of authors is saying a lot to me about your taste in reading.
This isn't a slam - I personally don't have any problems reading pulp scifi and I have much the same reaction as you...but to Fantasy books (and indeed, most comics*). I find scifi, even pulp scifi, tends to far less addicted to generic and predictable story structures than even low fantasy, let alone high fantasy. What I think about Tolkien is unprintable (well it's not, it's just rude, but yea hype  )
*I like The Authority. This probably says a lot about me. I don't care 
Scifi's "what if's" endlessly fascinate me.
*Goes back to reading Hospital Station* |
I wouldn't read anything by that gay-hating Mormon nutjob Card. He will never get a penny of my money, nor a moment of my time, no matter how ground breaking or whatever his book may be (plus the story sounds about as enticing as a cold shower on an even colder day).
I've tried to read Heinlein, a long time ago (when I still thought Iron Maiden rocked) but I could never get into it at all. Fantasy is just... I don't have any words for how ridiculous that whole genre is to me. My blunt dismissal (as you call it) is the end result of what I've read, what I like, what I've studied academically and what I deem relevant to myself. I loved genre (mystery mainly) up until quite recently, when I realised that I was re-reading the same stories over and over again, they just had different names on them. Now I search for individual voices that don't fit into genre fiction.
I'm not young enough to find genre exciting any more, most of it (whether accurate or not), looks childish to my eyes. I mean I'm not going to waste time reading Asimov and Card when I could be reading Camus and Mitchell.