Welcome to our Social/Science/Fiction blog. Hopefully everyone finds blogger relatively easy to use; I know I do. I am going to go ahead and require the use of a blogger account in order to make comments, just to make it easier to respond directly to someone who makes a comment.
I suppose I will make this my first post:
I enjoyed yesterday's class, the syllabus looks good, and our discussion of "What is Science Fiction" was entertaining. I must admit that I have a slightly more inclusive view of science fiction than what both the class, and Prof. Jackson came up with. I don't quite agree with the idea that only works both using space, aliens, etc., and which have characteristics of good literature should be included in our definition. I don't have to read bad sci-fi (and I try not to), but I won't deny it's still sci-fi--every genre had its share of junk there is no reason to assume our preferred genre is somehow better.
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I wasn't sure what to expect. All I've ever done is watch Star Trek and other sci fi films and shows in the past, I decided to take the class to broaden my horizons on the genre. I also want to explore the question Prof Jackson gave us, is sci fi really that far out?
I'd agree that we shouldn't build "good" into the definition of the genre -- indeed, of any genre. Obviously there are some pretty prominent examples of bad and cheesy sci-fi out there, even some things that I really quite enjoy (like Tron, for example). My criterion of "good literature" was mostly about what I selected to assign for the class.
But for the genre itself, I do think that it's important to limit the reach of "science fiction" in some way. I'm not wedded to aliens or to space as distinguishing characteristics, but I will stand by otherness and technological change as two of the central aspects of sci-fi. More on that in my blog.
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