SF then & now (Was Re: Original Sin)

From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 12:37:51 EDT

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    Walter Hicks wrote:
    >
    > George Murphy wrote:
    >
    > >
    > > I don't agree with Walt about Wells as a SF writer. I think much of his SF was
    > > pretty good, though much is rather dated by now.
    >
    > Being a real SF buff, it is hard for me to think of Wells' so called science fiction as
    > being anything other than fantasy. There was precious little real science in his writings

            I think it would have looked different 100 years ago. E.g., the idea in
    _The Island of Dr. Moreau_ that animals could be modified to become "men" by surgery
    was probably plausible enough to be a reasonable "science fiction" premise then. If you
    were going to do that today you'd have to use genetic engineering as your premise.
    Something that the recent film of that with Marlon Brando & Val Kilmer failed to do -
    which is just one reason why it was one of the worst big budget films ever made.

            Similarly with _The War of the Worlds_. Now of course we know that there ain't
    no Martians. 100 years ago there were respectable scientists who throught there were.

                                                            Shalom,
                                                            George

                                                            Shalom,
                                                            George
     

    George L. Murphy
    gmurphy@raex.com
    http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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