Posts by giovanni tiso
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I got carried away by the spirit of the polemic - there may be one or two blood relatives who might be prepared to say that when all is said and done.
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There's a magic arkenstone in Westminster Abbey itself which holds things together. Little known fact.
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So that's why they don't have or need free speech!
Pope Pius the Somethingeth (the ninth, I think) made an argument against public education on exactly those lines.
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And there's large parts of sf fandom don't believe in Ballard (& Gray for that matter) as an sf writer, so it's better to play that one safe.
He himself did, however, which matters in the present argument.
you could try James Tiptree Jnr
How could I have left her out?
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(Not sure how we managed to have this whole conversation without - unless it escaped my attention - once mentioning JG Ballard, but looking up the covers of successive editions of his books - from those wonderfully pulp and semi-porn beginnings to the stylised respectability of the present day - shows in a very graphical manner the history of the mainstreaming of science-fiction. Now I'm pretty sure nobody, not even her blood relatives, is ever going to suggest that Atwood is a better writer than Ballard, surely?)
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Based on that statement, it looks to me like she started with a fairly narrow view of what should be classed as science fiction.
That's not the annoying part. The annoying part is that she implicitly put down all the science fiction authors, and most especially feminist writers like Russ, LeGuin, Piercy or Elgin, who had done the very kind of speculation she does in The Handmaid's Tale except, in the case of the first two at least, better. It was a marketing ploy, in other words.
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It's already under fire from the judiciary:
Did anybody hear Peter Williams QC on the wireless this morning. He appeared ready to strangle Garrett and risk his first strike.
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Same, I think it's very funky actually. I have a dream that some day they will dim the light on the whole city and do a performance in which it turns into a massive slide projector carousel thingamabob, as it's clearly meant to be.
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Compare and contrast Hundertwasser's remodelling of the Rosenthal factory in Selb. Although I guess he didn't add any space, just changed its relationship with its environment. (Here's the before picture).
He also put in a design for Te Papa, incidentally, I wonder if any of you knowledgeable chaps or chapesses knows where one could get hold of it.
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aka some of the books that James Cameron ought to have read before writing the script.