House Absolute

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 04 Dec 2008, 20:34 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:34:09 -0800
Subject: (urth) House Absolute
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote:

> >> Again, is he writing a fantasy or a prediction?
> >>
> >
> >Are those our only choices?
>
> No, take as many choices as you need to realize that this isn't Science
> Fact.
>

I suppose my point was that SF is not (or at least is rarely) about
prediction. Rather, it is (more frequently) about contemporary
"reality," as viewed through the distorting/magnifying/reflecting
eye of significant differance. (And thereby hangs an entire
theoretical discussion which is more appropriate, perhaps, to a
Delany list than to this list...)

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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