To: IronJack
"I think it's amusing that everything that passes for science fiction these days is dystopian."
Dystopian works can be very good if they're thoughtful. The problem isn't that too much science fiction is dystopian, but that it's thoughtlessly so. It's all just "oooo... here's a future filled with big ol' mean corporations". You could pick out a hundred of them that combined don't have anything as thought-provoking as your average 10 pages of 1984.
35 posted on
07/27/2006 7:13:09 PM PDT by
Sofa King
(A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
To: Sofa King
Dystopian works can be very good if they're thoughtful. The problem isn't that too much science fiction is dystopian, but that it's thoughtlessly so. It's all just "oooo... here's a future filled with big ol' mean corporations". You could pick out a hundred of them that combined don't have anything as thought-provoking as your average 10 pages of 1984.<<
Yes, but ven George Orwell was guilty of anti-Americanism:
"these damn Yanks are turning our Britain into their very own Airstrip-One"
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