Fantasy vs. science fiction
Published by Deanna Hoak August 10th, 2006 in blogMeme Therapy has posted answers to another question they asked me and some other folks, which was whether it was worth maintaining the “thin red line” between fantasy and science fiction.
They left off my first paragraph, where I linked a dozen or so of the “fantasy vs. SF” discussions that went around the blogosphere a while back, but you can see what remains of my answer there, anyway.
EDIT: Ah. The missing paragraph was just a mistake. The links went a little crazy on them, but they got it straightened out.
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My bad, I didn’t understand how it would look with all that html coding (I thought it would appear as a solid paragraph of url’s). However now that I realize what you did I put it back in.
Cheers,
Jose
Much as I love ‘im this is why Jose doesn’t have admin access to the new blog… He ain’t getting his grubby little paws on any of my lovely code.
I am amused by imagining you carefully crafting that sentence full of links to have the right number of words.
Of course, I have my own personal definition of science fiction and fantasy. Science fiction is what we are trying to make work every day at NASA. Fantasy is what we’d do with a real budget.
Rosie: I’m learning about code the hard way with this blog, too (and have broken down and hired out some of the stuff I gave up on), so I don’t have any hard feelings. :-)
Mentalwasteland: :-) It’s cute, but true, too. With the way things are right now, I don’t think NASA is ever going to get the budget to do manned spaceflight properly, and it’s part of the reason I am more supportive of doing it robotically–we can do more for less money, and if we did find something really cool that way, the budget might change.
What I’d like is to have the budget to do both robotic and manned missions as they are needed. Sometimes, the political aspects of this work are annoying.
Mentalwasteland: That would be nice; I just don’t see it ever happening.