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Subject: Re: So, What Games Are You Looking Forward To? (2025 Ed)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>On Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:42:23 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>>entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>>say:
>>
>>>On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:47:22 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>>>>entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>>>>say:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:30:21 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On 1/23/2025 9:00 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I don't even know if I can rouse myself to play PC games much anymore. 
>>>>>>I got hooked on reading sci-fi/fantasy again and have been blowing 
>>>>>>through books like crazy.
>>>>>
>>>>>Heh. Oddly enough, me too. I mean, I tend to go through books fairly
>>>>>regularly anyway, but recently I've been hitting the pages a lot more
>>>>>often. It's definitely cutting into my video-game time! 
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm working my way through Ian Bank's "Culture" series again.Well,
>>>>>most of them. A couple of his books are written in first-person, and
>>>>>that's just not a format I enjoy. But all the rest.  They aren't
>>>>>/great/, but they're imaginative and passably well written (even if
>>>>>every book does seem like he just ran out of ideas and just decided to
>>>>>end it at some random point).
>>>>
>>>>Consider Phlebas and that execution method?
>>>
>>>Or "Matter", where the heroes are all (mostly) killed off and the
>>>story ends. "Excession" is similar too.
>>>
>>>I don't actually think it's the author running out of ideas; it's part
>>>of his style and messaging. But given the pacing and tone of the rest
>>>of his books, the sudden end leaving so many things unresolved (the
>>>latter of which, I think is the whole point) is incredibly jarring. 
>>>
>>>It's as if Star Wars ended right when the X-wings start attacking the
>>>Death Star. Because of how the rest of the story goes, you know the
>>>heroes --armed with mystical powers and knowledge of the planet's
>>>secret weakness-- are likely to win... but you sort of want that
>>>resolution. And I think that's an apt comparison, because in many ways
>>>the Culture books are very space-opera sci-fi, and that genre
>>>typically gets its heroic end. Banks is obviously writing in a way
>>>that purposefully subverts those expectations, which is an interesting
>>>experiment but overall not to my liking. 
>>
>>I did not get a space opera vibe from the culture novels, but then I am
>>a fan of the original space opera author, E.E. "Doc" Smith.
>
>Galaxy-destroying levels of power are hardly necessary for it to be
>space opera. I mean, Star Wars still largely limits itself to
>destroying mere planets, and it is definitely space opera. And The
>Culture universe is definitely within that range (in fact, far above,
>since they not only destroy planets, but build them at times)

Star Wars and Star Trek are NOT science fiction, they never have been.
Science has never been the foundation of those shows, not ever.

E.E. "Doc" Smith was always about the science of the era and taking it
as far as it could go.

Yes that meant using tube technology - i.e. spacehounds of ipc (1948)

I do not recognize Star Wars as space opera, not even close, it's pure
fantasy in space.   Literally every element is from fantasy.  The Hermit
who is a powerful  wizard, the magic sword, the bad guy who is the
hero's father - every damn element is pure fantasy - setting it in space
does NOT make it sci fi, it's still pure fantasy.

George Lucas pulled the wool over a lot of eyes, but not mine!

Xocyll
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