Re: (TFT) TFT Mapping

[David Jackson <azog@bellsouth.net>]

I am hoping that you are mistaking "pseudo-scientific fantasy" with 
"fantasy".

Fantasy comes from honest imagination, while "pseudo-scientific fantasy" 
assumes that the reader is ignorant of the science used, and thus the 
veil of believability is not broken.

For example, if you write a story and, in that story, try to convince me 
that the lasers use some fabrication called "dark light" to make super 
lasers, then you are assuming that I am ignorant of the way light works.

Which is a slap in the face.

David

slid81554@mypacks.net wrote:
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>> From: "maou_tsaou1@netzero.net" <maou_tsaou1@netzero.net>
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>> Call it "pseudo-scientific fantasy."
>> The writers thereof are either too ignorant or too careless to do the painstaking work required to produce honest speculation.
>>     
>
> Nah, I think you're wrong here. I think a good many of them (if I were a writer, I'd be included in this group), just aren't interested in pursuing speculation as a focal point for their work. It's neither better nor worse, it's just where you want to put emphasis.
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