Aliens and technobabble-
POSTED BY: SevenPercent
UPDATED: Friday, May 14, 2004 03:48
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An ongoing beef I'm having lately with more recent authors is the apparent trend for people with a large string of numbers after their names to write detailed scientific dissertations under the guise of fiction.
I'm all for making scholarly topics interesting and captivating, but as a reader I don't want to have to be at least a graduate level science student just to follow the concepts presented.
I think the old saying that 'story is king!' is the really important part here. None of us are impressed by flashy graphics that have no story 'glue' to hold those flashy scenes together.
That's why 1970s disaster films are so great ... the FX were great for the time, but not good enough for some suit to decide that the movie only needs some bangs and booms, forget the writing. The writing is key. Remember 'The Poseidon Adventure'? Compelling, gripping drama about a group of very different people trying to survive.
Hey ... sounds like this great TV show I watched religously ... Firefly! 
Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
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Quote:
Originally posted by annik:
An ongoing beef I'm having lately with more recent authors is the apparent trend for people with a large string of numbers after their names to write detailed scientific dissertations under the guise of fiction.
EEk!
Sorry ... I'm horribly tired tonight and really should just log off to go saw some logs.
I *meant* to say "people with a large string of *letters* after their names (ie: PhD, etc.) ...
... sorry for the misprint!
Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
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