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Science Fiction has become a poisoned well . .
7-27-06
| Marc Costanzo
Posted on 07/27/2006 6:49:43 PM PDT by marc costanzo
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Let us create a future of infinite possibilities devoid of the agenda of the social engineers who work their corruption on us thru the one way world of television . A world where anything is possible , but not everything is possible . Anything can happen , but not all things can happen at once . That is what 'Time' is for , to keep all things from happening at the same moment . That shall be the only rule of our new fantasy world . That an event happens only once . What has been done , cannot be undone . There is no turning back the sands of time . You can review the past but you cannot change the past . That a vision of a possible future - to the present , must be taken in the context of the present . A Cosmos not governed by compassion or tolerance or equality , but common sense and merit . A Universe of strange and totally new lifeforms and not distorted reflections of human characters , just to make some social allegory ---- THAT is the insipid barren road of Political Correctness that Sci-fi entertainment has been a slave to for so many years . The future is not the current events of our world thrown into Outer Space . The future is not with the Liberals , not with the Multiculturalists (both hate America) , and it is certainly not to be found in some cheapo TV production made in Canada ! The future is not written , the future is unformed . . .
To: KevinDavis
To: marc costanzo
I liked LEXX. That was one bizarre show. It's where I learned what a "fluffer" is.
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posted on
07/27/2006 6:52:37 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Everybody's entitled to my opinion.)
To: cripplecreek
That Canadian series LEXX I now realize is another example of Canadians ripping off someone else's ideas(for once, not one of ours) .
The British series RED DWARF was first, and better .
It started out as a comedy stage act on UK TV, then became more Sci-Fi . .
And yes, I had a guilty pleasure of liking that bizarre show too !
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posted on
07/27/2006 6:56:31 PM PDT
by
marc costanzo
(Strength & Honor)
To: marc costanzo
Red Dwarf is playing again here in Georgia!
Smegg off!
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posted on
07/27/2006 6:57:54 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: cripplecreek
>>I liked LEXX. That was one bizarre show. It's where I learned what a "fluffer" is.<<
You are talking about the last season, the episodes that take place on earth and Stanley Tweedle gets a job in the porn industry . .
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posted on
07/27/2006 6:58:15 PM PDT
by
marc costanzo
(Strength & Honor)
To: marc costanzo
The recently departed Jim Baen will provide you a source for science fiction that you can identify with. And the first "fix" in the
free library is, in fact, free. Like all good capitalists they don't give it away out of the goodness of their heart. They assume that you'll get hooked on their authors and series and buy more from them. Clever them. They've got me buying the books as "advanced reader copies" ebooks even before they've finished proof reading them.
http://www.baen.com/I suggest all the stuff by Ringo, the Niven/Pournelle collaboration Angel's Down, the stuff by Rick Cook, Eric Flint's 1632 universe and the Honor Harrington books. I think you'll be pleased.
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posted on
07/27/2006 6:58:42 PM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(Often wrong, but never in doubt)
To: Conan the Librarian
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posted on
07/27/2006 6:59:21 PM PDT
by
marc costanzo
(Strength & Honor)
To: marc costanzo
I wanted to visit Potatoho.
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posted on
07/27/2006 6:59:42 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Everybody's entitled to my opinion.)
To: marc costanzo
Maybe they should make a series based on Heinlein's Lazarous Long character.
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posted on
07/27/2006 6:59:47 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
To: marc costanzo
I think it's amusing that everything that passes for science fiction these days is dystopian. It's all this angst-ridden bleakness that belies man's innate stubborness, the parasitic persistence that causes him to defile one creation after another, only to create yet another. But in the PC future, there is no light, only tunnel.
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posted on
07/27/2006 7:00:46 PM PDT
by
IronJack
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posted on
07/27/2006 7:01:02 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: marc costanzo
*Sigh!* In a better universe, there would have been an anthology series "Tales of Known Space", with installments of Gil 'The Arm' Hamilton, Beowulf Shaeffer, and Man/Kizn Wars...
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posted on
07/27/2006 7:01:07 PM PDT
by
LRS
To: marc costanzo
To: marc costanzo
I liked Firefly. Never saw it on TV but I have all the episodes on disc.
No "aliens" with latex glommed on their faces, no space monsters or exploding suns, but it was a western in the old tradition, people dealing with people problems, but in a ship named Serenity.
I never saw LEXX, though, is it worth the effort?
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posted on
07/27/2006 7:01:52 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: marc costanzo
How about creating a new sci-fi anthology with none of the puerile baggage of Rod Serling, Rockne Obannon, Michael J. Stracinsky, etc .. It is time to end their reign of un-American cynicism and fatalism ! We can all dream about "The Jerry Pournelle Theater", but good luck trying to interest anyone in Hollywood in such a concept.
On the other hand, improving video technology is steadily reducing the cost of production, while the Internet is reducing the cost of marketing. Is there a TV Rutan in our future?
To: Phsstpok
>>I suggest all the stuff by Ringo, the Niven/Pournelle collaboration Angel's Down, the stuff by Rick Cook, Eric Flint's 1632 universe and the Honor Harrington books. I think you'll be pleased.
<<
Oh really ?
I have only read the works and short stories of:
H G Wells
EE Doc Smith
Larry Niven
Robert Heinlein
AE van Vogt
Issac Asimov(Second Foundation, History of the Greeks)
Edgar Allen Poe(Facts in the Case of Mr Valdemaar)
John W Cambell Jr(Who Goes There?)
Arthur C. Clarke(Exile of the Eons)
Dean R Koontz (Phantoms)
To: everyone
What gets my blood boiling is the Sci-Fi channel is billed as Sci-Fi...why do they constantly show horror films. If that's what they want to do...then CREATE a horror channel.
Put on episodes of the Dark Knight, Poltergeist, Nightstalker, etc...even Ghost Hunters.
To: marc costanzo
I have no idea what "LEXX" is, but my perception (and I admit to having moved to the periphery over the past few decades) is that Science Fiction in a
written medium is alive and well.
Whether it lives on in the video world -- well, I can't say and I don't care, but I will say that well over 90% of I see in SF movies... leaves me cold. It's shallow, it plays to what the producers think is "today's market" (right or wrong, at best it soon becomes "yesterday's market") and most of it is best ignored.
I'd like to have a copy of the "original" "War of the Worlds" in my DVD collection. The last remake.. forget it.
"When Worlds Collide" is there, proudly. (Did they ever do "After Worlds Collide" by Wylie & Co?)
And the weeklies.. well. several years I got so bored by the Star Trek follow-ons I quit watching broadcast teeeeheeeeveeee entirely. I think I turned the tube on early this year to watch the Rose? Super? Cereal? Sugar? Finger? bowl -- but I'm not sure which nor when.
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posted on
07/27/2006 7:05:42 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi | SONY: 5yst3m 0wn3d, N0t Y0urs | NYT:Jihadi Journal)
To: cripplecreek
Can't, it was destroyed by Mantred's drone arms !
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