Re: Fiction Books

From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 01:30:52 MDT

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    Emlyn O'regan wrote:

    > OTOH, I found this rather reasonable, (dare I say it, transhumanist?)
    > interview with Crichton online.
    > http://www.readersread.com/features/michaelcrichton.htm
    > He is not ignorant about current technologies, and seems in this interview
    > to be rather in favour of them. Now I'm confused.

    What makes a good story is usually not the same as what makes for a good
    reality. To have any kind of suspence in a story there needs to be conflict.

    Crichton is just using his tools of the trade.

    That is why it is hard to make good stories *for* something. It is much
    easier to be against something.

    So to make a story that is positive about transhumanism, you would
    probably need to turn it around and make the "other side" the
    antagonists. The religious fanatic dogmatists, the statists and luddites.

    -- 
    hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark
    http://www.futureport.dk/
    Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
    


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