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Re: Science Fiction (was Re: Transit Time to Mars)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:15:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeff Thompson writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Selçuk Göre writes:
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> > > By the way, why no body mentions Douglas Adam's Hitchiker series?..:-)
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> > Possibly because, while it's entertaining, it's also fairly straightforward
> > farce with uneven characterization and plot. Don't get me wrong--I've read • it
> > all, and I quite enjoy it, but it lacks, to me, much of the strength of these
> > other "canonical" works we've discussed.
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> > Dave!
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> I do think it's canonical farce, up there with Harvard Lampoon's
> "Bored of the Rings" and Gaimen/Pratchett's "Good Omens."
Ugh! I found "Bored" to be perfectly dreadful! As for Pratchett, he
differs from Adams, and always has, in that Pratchett's work has been satire
without being baggy-pants farce in line with the stereotypical (as commonly
held by some Americans) "British" humo(u)r.
"Canonical farce" is a good term, though! I still think it's best measured
against a different scale from "conventional" scifi.
Dave!
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