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Jul 3 07 2:51 PM

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(try reading some of the earliest SF, most of it is very bad...)


Actually it's worse than bad. It's appalling in most cases. All females are pretty, yet useless accessories for males (or obstacles for males to jump over like heroes when the annoying female twists an ankle at an importune moment). Characters are made from flimsy cardboard. And the plots are paper-thin.

But some of the premises behind the boring info-dumps and the crappy dialogue between cardboard characters are really quite ingenius.

I tend to struggle through quite a bit of early SF for the little pearls of genius hidden amid the drivel. I think some of the imagination back then was a little broader, more adventurous.

Bring some of that creativity and uniqueness back - but add the modern writing styles, I say

Lee

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