Killing Speculative Literature
In the last year I’ve been realizing some growing trends that have made reading very difficult for me. Some of these trends have been in books that have gained popularity and the worst part of this is that these books become examples of good speculative literature when in reality they are not even good literature […]
Will Science Fiction Die?
The short answer is yes. But I’m not here to give a short answer. Instead, I intend to try to explain why science fiction will find itself in a terrible bind at some point in the future. The sad part of this is that many of us may watch science fiction die, or perhaps our […]
Dystopian Commonalities in SF
…or why dystopian fiction is so common We all know what the model dystopian novel is, since we had to read it in school. Some of us enjoyed it immensely; some of us hated it with a passion. In either case, we were presented with 1984 by George Orwell as the first true dystopian novel. […]
The Literary Nazis: Part Two
…or Why the Literary Academia Hates SF…from my viewpoint.Well, I thought I’d do a little extension on this post. What exactly makes those who seem to control the literary world and decide the fate of individual works of art hate science fiction so much? Given the discussion in my Literary Interpretation class, I think I […]
The Literary Nazis (Against Science Fiction)
I wrote the following as a journal entry for one of my literature classes this year. It came up during class really, the idea that the literary world considers science fiction, and fantasy, to be either not really literature at all, or lesser literature. This has become a sort of campaign for me now–attempting to […]
Man’s Obsession With Predictions
We live a society constantly trying to predict, in one way or another, what exactly is going to happen in the future–near or far. We’ve all heard of Nostradamus–well most of us, look him up if you haven’t. So, what exactly is our curiosity with the future? The interesting thing is that, from the perspective […]