Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 12:16 am
Are you suggesting that sci-fi writing requires more imagination, and the greater one's imagination, the greater one's proclivity for polymathery?
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Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 10:01 pm
Wouldn't you agree that it requires more imagination, intelligence, and education?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 2:51 am
Wouldn't you say that intelligence and imagination are independent of each other, i.e., you can be gifted in one of those but not necessarily the other?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:59 pm
Is that where Fantasy writers come from? 
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:50 pm
So you have very little respect for the Fantasy genre?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:00 pm
Don't I write in the Fantasy genre?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:04 am
What's the basic difference between the fantasy and science fiction genres?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:33 pm
Fantasy ignores the laws of nature and Science Fiction extrapolates from known science and technology-- but does anybody really agree on that definition?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:11 pm
If the transporter in Star Trek is pretty much an impossible invention, does that make Star Trek part of the fantasy genre?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:50 pm
Aren't there a ton of things in Star Trek, from transporters and force fields to energy beings and mixed human-alien characters, that make it more Fantasy than SF?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:37 am
Interesting. I've never really enjoyed the more traditional fantasy genre novels, including classics such as Lord of the Rings. Yet I've always loved Star Trek, which as you've pointed out is largely fantasy. How can that be explained?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2019 8:57 pm
Could it be that the trappings are those of Science Fiction, even if the setting is more Fantasy?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2019 11:36 pm
What is it about Twilight Zone that sets it apart from most traditional sci-fi or horror work?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2019 11:30 pm
Could it possibly be the synergy of the great stories, stylized dialogue, surreal sets, stark black-and-white cinematography, and coming at just the right social moment for it to make the maximum impact?
Re: Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2019 12:27 am
Would Rod Serling approve of the latest Jordan Peele incarnation?