As a science fiction fan, I follow several sites that post about eBooks. Of late, I see many new titles about werewolves, vampires and zombies. Such creatures are fine when they keep to their proper genre, but when they masquerade as science fiction I get irritated.
I like the end of the world as well as anyone, but does it always have to be the same zombie stuffed, vampire ridden post-apocalyptic world? Why can’t you authors write stories like those in Jack Vance’s “Dying Earth”? Vance mixes crumbling technology and magic without resorting to un-dead or dog-eared characters. Why can’t you guys?
Occasionally one of you gets a vampire right, but werewolves? Come on. And, zombies—plah-eze—they are so implausible. I mean, can a walking sack of rotting flesh get readers to suspend disbelief? Let’s try something new, something with at least a trace of science in it, not another werewolf story. Is the world going to the dogs, or what?
Ok, so ya gonna deny Frankenstein too? I made plastic models of all those you dis during my pre-teen years in the basement of my parents house. Remember using dope paint?
ReplyDeleteSome political operatives such as Karl Rove could be accused of being a Zombie, FUCK he really needs a brain to be so far off their estimates spending 100's of millions of $ on big losers!
Plah-eze, let's not be dropping any capitalized f-bombs. I'm trying to run a CLEAN blog here.
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ReplyDeleteAll it takes is radiation from the Higgs particle to convert people into zombies....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-NwLUPZWZc
Oh, yeah. I forgot about the Higgs particle. My bad.
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