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Science fiction – have we forgotten what it should be?

Posted on October 20, 2014December 13, 2014 by blablablaandgabbler

Interesting insights on Science Fiction:

What makes a story science fiction? Is it an otherworldly location, the science, the time in which it is set?

I’m thinking about this because of a review I saw this week of a novel billed in The Times as science fiction, which sounded rather disappointing – and it’s put me on a bit of a mission.

I haven’t read the book so it would be wrong of me to name it, but it concerned a new planet populated by humanlike aliens. The main threads are the bringing of God to the indigenous people, and the exploitation of its resources by mining companies.

It seemed this story could have been set anywhere. The human challenges were no different from those in a historical novel. The other-world setting didn’t add anything fresh, except maybe to save the writer some research. (I see a lot of science fiction – and fantasy –…

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“Prepare yourself, Odys,” Dorian said, his ambivalent tone missing the same caution of his words. “You’re going to meet Bob.”

Posted on October 19, 2014December 13, 2014 by blablablaandgabbler

For ~~Robyn~~ Bob.

In other news, you can now find THE AUTOMATION on Smashwords.

Meet our character Bob in THE AUTOMATION

It’s all about Writing (and always has been)

Posted on October 16, 2014December 13, 2014 by blablablaandgabbler

Great points! Though, we still think that J.K. Rowling could have learned a lot about her writing through criticism uninfluenced by her famous name (by keeping her pen name a secret (by having more control over the process)). Her whole point in using “Robert Galbraith” was undermined when the pen name leaked. Otherwise, she could have just used “J.K. Rowling” to keep writing and becoming that “better author” that he speaks of.

Andrew Updegrove: Tales of Adversego

I happened upon a blog entry the other day that asked why J.K. Rowling hadn’t self-published her new crime books. The blogger went on at great length to illustrate the advantages Rowling could have enjoyed if only she had hired her own editor, publicist and so on. The decision of the famous author, evidently, was too inexplicable and wrong-headed to be believed.