tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post4899834745706286843..comments2024-03-28T16:39:46.847-04:00Comments on Tellers of Weird Tales: Is Science Fiction Dying?Terence E. Hanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-65862341535893352332014-03-21T22:40:58.057-04:002014-03-21T22:40:58.057-04:00The newer generations are changing it all. Like a...The newer generations are changing it all. Like all things dear to each one these things will fade with time leaving for future generations those that fit their time and space. I've seen some of what were referred to as classics slip from public memory. Most of what we have held dear will be lost to time replaced by newer fads ad infinitum.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12168568381694506602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-77161885376202109592014-03-19T21:27:09.191-04:002014-03-19T21:27:09.191-04:00Dear Dennis,
You make a good point, that science ...Dear Dennis,<br /><br />You make a good point, that science fiction is being incorporated into other genres and is generally accepted without question or reflection as an element of other types of stories. A friend of mine points out that the superhero genre is based on science fiction; superhero movies are by no means dying out. There are other genres that have incorporated science fiction to be sure. Even the last Indiana Jones movie is science fiction. And I agree with you that as long as writers ask the (science-based) question "What if?" there will be science fiction.<br /><br />No one has ordained that science fiction shall live forever, but I think science fiction will go on, just not as the old fans would like it to. I went to a science fiction convention two years ago (my first). I would hazard a guess that few there would have known who Robert A. Heinlein or Arthur C. Clarke were, but that didn't cool their ardor or dampen their excitement about science fiction. To them, science fiction is Doctor Who or any number of television science fiction shows. That's not their grandfather's science fiction, but who says that science fiction has to remain in a mold cast in the 1950s?<br /><br />Thanks for writing.<br /><br />THTerence E. Hanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-83412492358704002622014-03-16T06:46:30.092-04:002014-03-16T06:46:30.092-04:00I don't think it's a question of dying so ...I don't think it's a question of dying so much as SF evolving into forms not recognizable by the old definitions. It won't be the heterogeneous genre it was in the past, but its elements will be incorporated part and parcel into other genres and be generally accepted as normative elements thereof -- because if the elements based on asking science-based 'what if' questions are ever entirely absent from our fiction and entertainment, that is the first and most definite sign of the death of imagination, and inevitably the death of a viable living culture.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06751939462958624387noreply@blogger.com