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1 posted on 04/10/2015 11:37:27 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Nice to see the forces of good fight back for a change. Now if only someone would fight National Geographic’s left wing capture...


2 posted on 04/10/2015 11:47:24 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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the hard left is fearful of science fiction and fantasy fiction books from conservatives because of its ability to break through the layers of indoctrination that the left has heaped on society. Most authors put there values in to what they write and love to expose ideas that are not will thought out or are strait out lies portrayed as truths. there has always been a battle of ideas between the CS Lewis’s and the Madlin le’ Engle’s of the world and that of the hard left.


4 posted on 04/11/2015 12:31:02 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (BUT MAK)
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This is a very interesting story, and I’m glad to see someone fighting back. If this could happen to Ray Bradbury...


6 posted on 04/11/2015 1:06:09 AM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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Good to see Jim Butcher on someone’s list besides Goodreads :)


8 posted on 04/11/2015 1:41:48 AM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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I all but stopped reading any science fiction when I became a scientist. To me, a science fiction story should incorporate real physical principles. A story that depends on pure fantasy disguised in a sciency-looking wrapper is neither science fiction nor fantasy.

I do read fantasy; it is more honest because no one is trying to pass off the physically impossible as being futuristic.

I also can’t stand the political correctness permeating so many stories. Sometimes, the story is good enough that it can transcend the author’s politically correct moralizing, but usually, it becomes unreadable. There are many good authors out there who do not try to moralize, but just tell a story. This isn’t to say that morals are not incorporated in their stories, but that their stories are not vehicles for trying to ram far-leftist ideals down our throats.

Terry Goodkind, Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks are just a few living authors who tell good stories. Of course, we cannot forget the past masters—Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clark, JRR Tolkein...


10 posted on 04/11/2015 3:01:58 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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later


12 posted on 04/11/2015 3:42:13 AM PDT by vladimir998
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I quit reading sci-fi years ago when the genre ran out of spaceships and blasters and was reduced to dragons and magic. It’s been 10-15 years since I bought anything off the sci-fi shelf.

Sad, really.


14 posted on 04/11/2015 4:05:15 AM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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Heinlein, Asimov, Clark........They can’t be replaced by PC wusses........


21 posted on 04/11/2015 4:59:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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competing but complimentary slate

I thought that surely The Spec would have a proofreader.

23 posted on 04/11/2015 5:10:34 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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The left literally ruins everything it touches. They aren’t progressive. They’re regressive.


26 posted on 04/11/2015 5:29:33 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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No surprise on this side that sci fi has become an instrument of hate for the left as they try to brainwash childlike adults who see their obvious lies and deceits. And their heros are hateful bigots.


29 posted on 04/11/2015 5:45:19 AM PDT by kindred (The time of America may be short, but Israel will come to fruition under God's Son.)
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As far as sci-fi goes, there’s “2001,” and there’s everything else.


32 posted on 04/11/2015 5:57:56 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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Rather than working with liberals to ‘be fair’ we need to set up our own publishing houses.

Think of it as ‘FOXNews’ publishing...it can be done.


34 posted on 04/11/2015 6:19:15 AM PDT by GOPJ (Climatology is a science?? Kinda like Lesbian Dance Theory is a sport... freeper eyeamok)
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This news is months old now but I just learned it, the first name of Emperor Palpatine, a subject of fevered speculation for decades, has been revealed as..........Sheev.


46 posted on 04/11/2015 3:51:15 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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ping


48 posted on 04/11/2015 7:57:42 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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bump


51 posted on 04/11/2015 9:55:46 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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everyone on the thread should read this:

http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/04/09/a-response-to-george-r-r-martin-from-the-author-who-started-sad-puppies/


56 posted on 04/12/2015 12:06:35 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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I refused to pay to see Avatar. I didn’t need some Canadian doooosh to criticize American military as being criminal usurpers of sovereign nations that just wanted to be left alone

I waited years till I realized my public library had the blue ray in stock. Watching it proved my original thoughts on the movie were correct. It is just a PC hit piece on America


68 posted on 04/12/2015 4:52:56 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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I'm certain they changed the name because they had no intention of broadcasting anything but Fi devoid of all Sci.

Ghosts? Fiction.
Sharknado? Fiction.
Vampires? Fiction.
Werewolves? Fiction.

Where's all the Sci?

I haven't watched that channel in ages. Nothing but garbage. Although, I see that Stargate Continuum is on today. I guess they're still throwing the occasional bone to us diehards.

69 posted on 04/12/2015 8:03:40 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Those too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.)
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