Sunday, February 27, 2011

Spec or Scifi?

Definitely Speculative fiction. There is no laser shot guns, no plasma railguns, no void dimension projector, no super lightspeed jets. There is no any cool tech. gadgets in the story. THIS IS A FAILING SCIFI (if it is intended so..) This is more like a story of the present that exists in a parallel universe. Honestly, this novel is a bit too pessimistic. How can US fall into some stupid state of destruction and take over by theologists...How can the rest of the world fall...At least not Taiwan...there is me here!!! (I am just trying to be stupid here...) How cliche can it be to put spies in communities? You use satellites! You hack into everyone's webcam! You use everyone's cellphone to project sonar and monitor everyone!! (stole it from Dark Knight) Basically, it is an epic fail Science fiction. However, since we don't really want to fail any books (maybe because we want to encourage more authors), we put it into the speculative fiction category.

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