Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:04:57 -0400
From: Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The World Turned Upside Down - and changes
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Sunday, September 12, 2004, 11:45:29 PM, you wrote:

> I just accept the fact that some of the assumptions
> about technology and science made in older SF have
> turned out to have been wrong.  As long as it's
> well-written I don't care.   for instance, Arthur C.
> Clarke's Islands in the Sky is a fun adventure story
> that makes completely wrong assumptions about the
> effects of prolonged weightlessness, our ability to
> colonize Venus, and advances in space travel and
> exploration.  So what.  It's still a good read.

I agree wholeheartedly.

For me, all SF is escapist, even 'idea' SF.

--
Jim Kling
science writer
Rockville, MD
http://nasw.org/users/jkling