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jameswharris.wordpress.com - 11/24/2008
Defining Science Fiction
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This is my 185 th post for my WordPress blog and my 51 st that will be filed in the science fiction category. I started out as a late middle-aged guy wanting to reinvent himself by pursuing a new hobby and ended up doing way too much naval gazing. I need to break out of that loop, wrap up ...

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  • EmilyBlips EmilyBlips
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    "If I could understand why I prefer entertaining fiction to seeking a deeper understanding of reality I would really find enlightenment."

    Hmm, I guess I like both. I can't really imagine sticking to any one genre exclusively. It's nice to have phases. I miss when I was a kid and had so much time to read. Also, you got so much credit for reading. Just reading books was enough to make everyone happy, heh. Used to just read whole days away.

    Posted 11/26/2008 respond (flag)
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SF Tidbits for 11/24/08
SF Signal — ... James Wallace Harris is Defining Science Fiction: "After pursuing hundreds of hours of meditation on the subject, I want to define science fiction as a belief system rather than an art form..." ...

What Is Science Fiction Starlinks, Value Added
Mike Brotherton: SF Writer — ... James  Wallace Harris weighs in on defining science fiction.  Interesting thoughts, but I disagree with his conclusion that science fiction is a “belief system.”  He argues that a science fiction story is a science-based reality put into book form, the same way you can have Christian music or an account promoting a particular philosophy.  Science isn’t a belief system.  It’s a tool that informs about reality.  Not about my reality, or the Mormon’s reality, or William Shatner’s reality.  Reality.  It doesn’t matter who ...

The SFFaudio Podcast #014
SFFaudio — ... Halloween Tree, Poe’s Children, StarShipSofa’s Richard K. Morgan interview, Hour 25, converting m3u into MP3, Coeur de Lion’s podcast, the difference between “mainstream fiction”, “literary fiction” and “slipstream fiction”, Peter Straub, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Michael Crichton, James Wallace Harris’ post about Science Fiction as a religion, A Man In Full, Tom Wolfe, Mike Resnick’s ...

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