Oooh, this has spurred so many threads, I will have to contemplate additions/clarifications/a long author's note up top.
...serve both as mirrors to humanity, and also as kind of our conceptual descendants/creations. I don't have fully formed thoughts on this yet, but it makes me wonder whether there is a broad statement about different kinds of spec-fic -- is genetic speculation (Atwood, Butler) serving the same purpose in mirroring/creation? I feel like maybe there is something about which viewpoints are prioritized in different kinds of spec-fic?
[We can't count] on TV for really revolutionary speculative fiction stories, though. I largely agree with this, for the reasons you mentioned, and actually regret not thinking about that more -- how much of what I'm mad about is just a fundamental limitation of the current production environment? And since I'm comparing books to movies/TV, is it just my general bias for the former? Or because I am specifically interested in robotic internal v. external lives and I think those will always be done best in a book?
Do you think that TV can't do any revolutionary fiction, or is there something specific to spec-fic. that is out of reach? It will be maaaybe interesting to see what comes out of the current boom in spec-fic TV, although I have, as you might guess, been underwhelmed so far.
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I don't have fully formed thoughts on this yet, but it makes me wonder whether there is a broad statement about different kinds of spec-fic -- is genetic speculation (Atwood, Butler) serving the same purpose in mirroring/creation? I feel like maybe there is something about which viewpoints are prioritized in different kinds of spec-fic?
I largely agree with this, for the reasons you mentioned, and actually regret not thinking about that more -- how much of what I'm mad about is just a fundamental limitation of the current production environment? And since I'm comparing books to movies/TV, is it just my general bias for the former? Or because I am specifically interested in robotic internal v. external lives and I think those will always be done best in a book?
Do you think that TV can't do any revolutionary fiction, or is there something specific to spec-fic. that is out of reach? It will be maaaybe interesting to see what comes out of the current boom in spec-fic TV, although I have, as you might guess, been underwhelmed so far.