Welcome

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.