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#1
07-10-2008, 04:34 PM
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Re: What are you reading?
I am in the middle of a sci-fi project...
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (sci-fi) and Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (sci-fi) at the moment...
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07-10-2008, 06:29 PM
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07-11-2008, 07:47 AM
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Could you be a bit more precise? No science or not fiction?!
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07-11-2008, 09:24 AM
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The last book I was reading but unfortunately didn't have time to finish was a biography of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers (if I remember correctly). I was visiting my grandmother (who doesn't really read books, but my late grandfather did), needed to kill some time during evenings, and thought that one could be an interesting read. The previous time I was there I read a book about Gorbachev, by some Indian author, methinks. It was a little dry to go through.
Haven't really been reading too many books in recent years... -Methem
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07-11-2008, 09:57 AM
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Huxley's Brave New World is set in the future but is more a social commentary and satire of serious contemporary issues of Huxley's time. The book is a hyperbolical view of utopian socialism run amuck. Fahrenheit 451 too depicts a society -- again set in the future but rooted in issues of the day -- which has eroded. Many of my favorite Sci-Fi movies (Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, Collosus: The Forbin Project, etc.) were deeply satirical of the issues of the cold war. "The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." -- Sydney J. Harris
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07-11-2008, 10:25 AM
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True, most science fiction is social commentary in a different time and place. Star Trek was one of my favorite shows because it never pretended to be sci-fi. They had episodes on the cold war, robotics, race issues, all kinds of things.
It helped to have a Vulcan who could have inner eyelids and things like that to get them out of impossible situations... Sci-fi to me was never special effects, etc...
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