Saturday, August 19, 2006
Core and Extreme
"At another point, I'll get into the more complex angles of this... But, essentially, this has been summed up by nearly every writer in the genre for the past century or more: Literature, as a whole, is concerned with the human condition; otherwise, it is at best "disposable reading matter". [Science Fiction] (or fantasy), however much it extrapolates from the genuine science of its time, is primarily a mythic type of storytelling; it uses the same sorts of tools as have been used at least since the Gilgamesh epic, and it does it for the same reasons that all good literature (when it is at its best) does so: to probe what it means to be human, the sorrows, the woes, the joys and hopes and dreams; the changes, the loss of change (including death, whether of people or of traditions) and the burgeoning hope of the new.... At its best, it probes the heartmeat in ways that much of "realistic" fiction cannot, because it touches us in ways that hark back to our most intense childhood longings, to know, and to understand, and to feel, and to believe...." - j.d. worthington, Science Fiction and Fantasy Forums
Gorgeously put. I notice I have been putting in much unoriginal material in my posts nowadays, but some things are just too good not to share.
Gorgeously put. I notice I have been putting in much unoriginal material in my posts nowadays, but some things are just too good not to share.
# posted by me lah @ 9:43 pm 
