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more about #genre Sugar Boots: I love PKD and with all of the crap movies that have been made from his books (I'm talking to you Affleck), it is a pleasure to be reminded how great ... more » disatess: My Dad took me to see the film in theatres back in 1982, I was so in awe of the film . When Roy Batty was chasing Deckard , it gave me a sense of tr... more » gods-n-clods: Putting on the 20/20 hindsight goggles, do we agree Dick is correct? He sounds like a flugelhorn for a PR machine, but the hyperbole is just eagerness... more » Golem100: Thanks for showing the image of the letter instead of a transcription. It's interesting to see the typo corrections in the second paragraph. more » txtphile: PS: Do not take this letter as implicit permission to rape my bibliography. For example, I would hate to see Paycheck turned into a mindless action mo... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: He needs a new toner cartridge for his printer. more » goldfarb: and he was dead 5 months later... an amazing letter...all he got wrong was the commercial success part..but then, so did everyone else. more » reddingofish: Thanks for that. Now I need to go get the Blu-Ray. more » burlybax: Right on! more » lostarchitect: This is great to see. I love that movie, and it may well have started my sci-fi fascination when I was a kid. I'm glad that PKD thought it was great, ... more » Rocketknight: I'm getting kind of misty-eyed. It's good to know that something he felt so strongly about came about to be true. more » rek: Fight fight fight! more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Ursula speaks the truth, beautifully. Everyone (esp. in CanLit) needs to read this. more » TheAlmanac: Atwood's nonsensical, elitist attitude towards classifying these works of hers is my single biggest pet peeve in CanLit, and I'm very glad to see some... more » Faustroll: Shorter Margret Atwood: "My book about a genetically modified, post apocalyptic world is not science fiction!" right. But if we judge it by the stan... more » Zyg: Why do people want to stay away from the genre? It is more popular today than ever. I believe Atwood is being pretentious and I think Le Guin is pulli... more » goldfarb: Science Fiction is a genre made up by publishers and book sellers in order to better market the product...which forces writers to conform to these cat... more » amygdala: Lots of writers have attempted to avoid the "ghetto" of science fiction by claiming that their books are something else. Michael Crichton might be wri... more » aosagi: The real problem is the tyranny of genre that exists in all art. If it's good it's good dammit, I don't care what you want to call it. Something lik... more » sjct: If a writer puts their story in the future or an alternate reality and there's some scientific element to it (like genetically modified humanoids) the... more » -
#philipkdick
Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
Philip K. Dick died before Blade Runner was completed, but in a letter to film's production company, he praised what he'd seen and claimed it would breathe life into what he believed was a stale genre. [via Letters of Note] -
#margaretatwood
Margaret Atwood Says She Doesn't Write Science Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin Disagrees
Margaret Atwood insists that her novels aren't science fiction, as everything she writes either has happened or could happen today. But in looking at Atwood's latest novel, The Year of the Flood, science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin disagrees. More » -
#greenpunk
Could Greenpunk be the New Steampunk?
Steampunk's Victorian and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with its imagined technologies has captured the imagination of designers, hobbyists, and writers. Now a literary publicist hopes to launch the same kind of movement for green technologies. More » -
