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I think Dick was right to a degree. We are measuring other sci-fi products to the Blade Runner and PKD standard.
That, and if I have to say it again, pick up the damn remastered soundtrack by Vangelis. That album is a masterpiece in and of itself, and is still inspiring tech/downtempo/glitch music.
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People are always writing interesting stuff. It just doesn't always get a lot of attention.
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an amazing letter...all he got wrong was the commercial success part..but then, so did everyone else.
10/13/09
I wouldn't call it a commercial failure. A box office failure, yes. After you consider all the video, DVDs, Director's Cut DVDs, Special Edition DVDs, Final Cut DVDs, and Blu-Ray editions sold, I'm sure someone has made money off of this movie.
10/13/09
that it, much later, was big on VHS and later DVD doesn't change that.
and while it's aesthetic/design/cultural etc influence can go without saying, it had a negative impact on sci-fi film at the time because of that commercial failure.
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08/31/09
Everyone (esp. in CanLit) needs to read this.
09/24/09
Anyone who follows CanLit has heard of the Canada Reads contest on CBC. I have always hoped that someone would have the guts to suggest Neuromancer, which was written in Vancouver (as I believe all Gibson's works have been) To those who gripe that none of the novel takes place in Canada, or that Gibson was born in the US, I would say a) Michael Ondaatje wasn't born in Canada and b) none of the English Patient takes place in Canada. It's elitism, pure and simple.
08/31/09
As others have said, it's not as if Atwood has anything to worry about in her career, so (even though we can't look into her mind and know for sure) any reason other than literary snobbery for these weird distinctions seems somewhat baffling.
08/31/09
That's why Atwood protests too much.
08/31/09
If anything, acknowledging that a few of her works are in this genre would get her fannish accolades as well as all of the prestige she already has...
08/31/09
But if we judge it by the standards of literary fiction, it utterly fails, because it disregards the tropes of that genre and adopts the tropes of speculative fiction. She's trying to have her cake and eat it too. (And as we who are familiar with sci-fi tropes know, the cake is in fact, a lie).
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