tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post5546634954921420118..comments2023-08-06T10:03:00.038-05:00Comments on POSSIBLY IRRITATING ESSAYS: Where Writing, Christianity, and Speculative Fiction Interact : SLICE OF PIE: Anti-Science, Cross-Political and the Reason Fantasy Novels Are AscendantGuyStewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01268114053763665577noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post-20329050696246180632009-03-02T09:56:00.000-06:002009-03-02T09:56:00.000-06:00I know -- I had to read the article twice to see i...I know -- I had to read the article twice to see if I was reading the headline right! My intent was to see if anyone checked the reference or just read the headline...which I always do now!GuyStewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01268114053763665577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post-73645385025330730752009-03-01T19:20:00.000-06:002009-03-01T19:20:00.000-06:00England has the same problem: “Most Britons are an...England has the same problem: “Most Britons are antiscience” http://johnrentoul.independentminds.livejournal.com/20196.html<BR/><BR/>Guy did you read the Poll questions? The questions would make me stop and think and maybe come out as antiscience. Bad questions if one was going to intrepet it as antiscience.<BR/><BR/>dougdemoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04676501653826647769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post-52503014576409577902009-03-01T09:24:00.000-06:002009-03-01T09:24:00.000-06:00Math is hard. Science is the province of nerds. Sm...Math is hard. Science is the province of nerds. Smart people don't have sex lives. Technology is doing terrible things to Gaia, Our Mother, The Earth. Scientists just create new and terrible ways to kill. Lab rats are people, too.<BR/><BR/>These are the dominant memes we've been beating into the heads of our children since 1970 via both public school and popular culture, so OF COURSE one of the lesser side-effects is that the market for science fiction is going to wither and die. The larger effects are manifest in such groups as the nitwits who are trying to shutdown the Large Hadron Collider at CERN because they fear it will create a black hole that will swallow the Earth or the doomsday cultists who awaken every morning trembling in fear of anthropogenic global warming.<BR/><BR/>That's the key word for you: <B>fear</B>.<BR/><BR/>Science fiction is the literature of people who look forward to the future. Fantasy is the literature of people who are running in screaming fear from the future.<BR/><BR/>It's a good time to be a fantasy writer.~brbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10845253722980029012noreply@blogger.com