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The SF (as in literature) thread
saint:
--- Quote from: Peale on November 21, 2008, 11:31:32 pm ---I gotta admit when I saw the title I thought it was Street Fighter too. I like Sci Fi much better.
I edited the main thread title. Hopefully there won't be any more confusion.
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Heh. SciFi is bug eyed monsters and bad television. SF is real science fiction. For what the OP wanted, you can call it SF or Science Fiction, but not Sci Fi. It's almost a religious argument in the making.
Ed_McCarron:
I made it through most of "Enders Game" last night. Pretty good.
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: saint on November 22, 2008, 09:06:41 am ---Heh. SciFi is bug eyed monsters and bad television. SF is real science fiction. For what the OP wanted, you can call it SF or Science Fiction, but not Sci Fi. It's almost a religious argument in the making.
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Wat? Explain the difference. What is 'real' science fiction?
saint:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on November 22, 2008, 10:36:39 am ---
--- Quote from: saint on November 22, 2008, 09:06:41 am ---Heh. SciFi is bug eyed monsters and bad television. SF is real science fiction. For what the OP wanted, you can call it SF or Science Fiction, but not Sci Fi. It's almost a religious argument in the making.
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Wat? Explain the difference. What is 'real' science fiction?
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You have to be a hard core science fiction fan to grok the difference, to the rest of the world it's a silly distinction.
The movie "Mission to Mars" was science fiction. "Star Wars" was Sci-Fi (technically space-opera but I digress...). There's a decent take on the difference here:
http://dynamicsubspace.net/2008/08/20/ontap-5-minute-teaching-session-sci-fi-or-sf/
--- Quote ---So, what are some examples of SF and sci-fi? A recent example of SF film would be The Matrix. It extrapolates from our world to create a reasonably plausible future based around computer simulation, autonomous robot beings, and a planet devastated by war. An example of sci-fi would be George Lucas’ Star Wars movies. Sure, there are space ships, ray guns, and aliens, but there’s also the Force, which is more fantasy than Science Fiction, and the laws of physics are violated egregiously in space such as having things slide off space ships in outer space as if it were an airplane in the Earth’s atmosphere. What are some Science Fiction movies that you’ve seen, and what would you classify them as–sci-fi or SF? Some other examples of sci-fi include Plan 9 From Outer Sapce, Back to the Future, Cloverfield, and Red Planet. Other examples of SF include A.I. Artificial Intelligence, A Scanner Darkly, WALL-E, The Dark Knight, and Mission to Mars.
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For most of the world it's probably silly semantics, but for hard core science fiction readers it's a valid distinction. I fall in the latter category but I don't get religious about it. :)
saint:
--- Quote from: saint on November 22, 2008, 11:33:17 am ---
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on November 22, 2008, 10:36:39 am ---
--- Quote from: saint on November 22, 2008, 09:06:41 am ---Heh. SciFi is bug eyed monsters and bad television. SF is real science fiction. For what the OP wanted, you can call it SF or Science Fiction, but not Sci Fi. It's almost a religious argument in the making.
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Wat? Explain the difference. What is 'real' science fiction?
--- End quote ---
You have to be a hard core science fiction fan to grok the difference, to the rest of the world it's a silly distinction.
The movie "Mission to Mars" was science fiction. "Star Wars" was Sci-Fi (technically space-opera but I digress...). There's a decent take on the difference here:
http://dynamicsubspace.net/2008/08/20/ontap-5-minute-teaching-session-sci-fi-or-sf/
--- Quote ---So, what are some examples of SF and sci-fi? A recent example of SF film would be The Matrix. It extrapolates from our world to create a reasonably plausible future based around computer simulation, autonomous robot beings, and a planet devastated by war. An example of sci-fi would be George Lucas’ Star Wars movies. Sure, there are space ships, ray guns, and aliens, but there’s also the Force, which is more fantasy than Science Fiction, and the laws of physics are violated egregiously in space such as having things slide off space ships in outer space as if it were an airplane in the Earth’s atmosphere. What are some Science Fiction movies that you’ve seen, and what would you classify them as–sci-fi or SF? Some other examples of sci-fi include Plan 9 From Outer Sapce, Back to the Future, Cloverfield, and Red Planet. Other examples of SF include A.I. Artificial Intelligence, A Scanner Darkly, WALL-E, The Dark Knight, and Mission to Mars.
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For most of the world it's probably silly semantics, but for hard core science fiction readers it's a valid distinction. I fall in the latter category but I don't get religious about it. :)
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By the way - my comparison of Mission to Mars vs Star Wars was made before I read the quoted article, but he and I both had the same opinion if that helps to illustrate the mindset.
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