I was reading another of my favorite Science Fiction books recently. Sci-Fi gets a bad rep. from the main-stream writers, and typically quite unfairly. Science Fiction requires an author to define characters well, their looks, their mannerisms, their nature... and bring often different types of critters together that don't exist elsewhere. For instance, if you said "The blond woman and the tiger"... a mental image of that very thing is easily understood by most people, requiring very little development. But, if you said "The Sapine and the Warraq", well, you suddenly find yourself having to create those characters in such a way that the reader can get a mental image and not only understand what is going on but form an attachment with some of the characters. So, having said all of that, I admire good Sci-Fi and appreciate the efforts necessary. But, maybe I've gone too far...
See, as I read the news now I find Sci-Fi plots running through my mind, and they are frightening ones. For instance, what would be the natural outcome for a Sci-Fi junkie like me when reading about mass unemployment, sinking wages, skyrocketing health care costs, property taxes, food costs, etc.... and a strong portion of the government that fights for the continuation of wholesale arms availability and increasing defense spending/war mongering on other shores, denial of unemployment benefits, lesser wages, greater difficulty in education, and demands that their fundamentalist views of Christianity be followed - even by those who don't believe? I mean, is it just me? Am I the only one that thinks the Republicans are actively seeking to bring about the end of the world so they can experience the Rapture spoken of in Revelations?
Maybe I am. Way too many books, I guess.
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