What would you say?
Now I get that fiction isn't based on real events, people, places, things, nouns, blah blah blah, because otherwise all fiction writers would be sued for everything but their inspirational Snuggie ( I can't find the symbol for the little circley R thing). However, I pose to you this ponderous question: "Why can't Science Fiction be based off of technology that is actually achievable?" Whoa. Don't get too excited. But really, why? I know that lately I've sort of been sort of insulting towards books in general, and really, I apologize. Actually, no I don't. Anyways, is it so terrible of me to ask for just a grain of truth in some gruesome, gory, alien infested realm envisioned by some guy whose computer is his best friend? I mean, if you spend enough time on the computer to write a book, then you have enough time to do some serious astrophysics research, or whichever exceptionally unheard-of topic you're injecting in-between pages of appalling, deplorable, zombie apocalypse. Not that I have anything against gory death scenes. In fact, quite the opposite (Though "The Hot Zone" was just a bit too in-depth for my taste). Right now, I'm halfway through "Invasive Procedures" by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, a book which I've been searching for for the past few months. I had read it previosly, I just forgot everything but the plot. Anyways, just about everything that occurs in this fantastic novel could occur. This novel both envisions a complex, convoluted plotline filled with gore and extensive action scenes, and provides background information and scientific facts of an unparalleled quality about a subject, which, when twisted into the plot, is still able to be used as a suitable nonfiction base for events.
I know that was hard to decipher. So I'll make it bigger for you people with a lack of acumen.
This novel both envisions a complex, convoluted plotline filled with gore and extensive action scenes, and provides background information and scientific facts of an unparalleled quality about a subject, which, when twisted into the plot, is still able to be used as a suitable nonfiction base for events.
Happy?
Good. Because, who really wants to read a book about a group of people who build a flying mechanical whale and fly it into an alternate dimension where the main currency is scraps of purple yarn and social status is determined by how many ladles you own?
(Actually, that doesn't sound too bad.)
But now you get my point.
*Acumen -
–noun
keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
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