Re: Self-selected literati bull*** SF


Blake Hyde wrote:

> I don't agree with many of Ringo's opinions he's expressed in other
> threads. I don't like Joyce, but I do like many other Literary Writers.
> I took a degree in literature, after all. However, I think I understand
> what he's trying to say: he doesn't like the pessimistic (I don't think
> nihilistic was the right word to use, because there is very little SF
> that I would consider truly 'nihilistic') branch of speculative fiction.
> Like 1984. Like Brave New World. Like Fahrenheit 451, or Do Androids
> Dream of Electric Sheep?, or any of the dozens of other pessimistic
> "futurist" novels.

The earth invaded by slug-ugly aliens who proceed to eat us is
optimistic?

> The idea of calling something you just don't appreciate "literary
> crapola" is... pretty arrogant, though.

It's not the book, it's the publisher. If Baen publishes it, it's OK.

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