tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post5040427891917677866..comments2024-03-28T08:02:30.691-04:00Comments on The League of Extraordinary Writers: Now and then...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431700962951592287noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-91645064116432716352010-06-19T07:12:06.138-04:002010-06-19T07:12:06.138-04:00I disagree entirely with 1984 being timeless.
As ...I disagree entirely with 1984 being timeless.<br /><br />As I have said in my review:<br /><br />"Orwell was far from a visionary, In fact he was so completely stuck in his own era that he could not imagine the future whatsoever. Perhaps the book should have stuck to its original title: The Last Man in Europe, for If it wasn’t for the title of the book I doubt many would have seen it as a version of the future but rather what it actually is; a parallel of 1940’s Russia."<br /><br />http://doctorcrankenstein.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/spoilers-1984/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-80765914193810661942010-06-04T18:31:11.300-04:002010-06-04T18:31:11.300-04:00I really adore speculative fiction
Adsense Alter...I really adore speculative fiction <br /><a href="http://www.admaya.in" rel="nofollow"> Adsense Alternative </a>Nishanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12461392896444120934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-75049271162427536852010-06-01T22:23:21.687-04:002010-06-01T22:23:21.687-04:00Thanks, Sharon! My weekend was great! Hope yours w...Thanks, Sharon! My weekend was great! Hope yours was, too!Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10783105022383640157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-41247819283527220062010-06-01T22:07:53.046-04:002010-06-01T22:07:53.046-04:00I hope you guys all had a wonderful weekend...I do...I hope you guys all had a wonderful weekend...I don't have anything to add to the discussion, but wanted you to know I stopped by. :)Sharon K. Mayhewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07799235347319851345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-41851118304517842952010-06-01T20:56:59.390-04:002010-06-01T20:56:59.390-04:00Thanks for all the comments!
Kelly - I so need to...Thanks for all the comments!<br /><br />Kelly - I so need to read The Giver.<br />Alissa - yes... that lurking-around-the-corner future - I love it!<br />Mary - I love the ruins, too. That totally blew me away in Planet of the Apes when they realized they were in the USA.<br />Pam - yes - we must be vigilant. Too much speculative fiction has already come to pass. <br />Jen - indeed - all the "what if's"<br />Daring Novelist - I like "flickerpunk," too!<br />Lisa - I will put that on my TBR list - thanks!<br />Angie - I did not know that! Tre' cool!<br />Riv Re - thanks for the comment (not too long) and good luck with your book!Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10783105022383640157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-82970175357046113012010-06-01T19:46:58.340-04:002010-06-01T19:46:58.340-04:00I love these 2 posts, as a dystopian fiction reade...I love these 2 posts, as a dystopian fiction reader and writer. A couple of good dystopian reads:<br /><br />Incarceron by Catherine Fisher takes place sometime in the future. The world has reverted back to a previous time. The book doesn't talk much about the past, but it does talk about something called the "Years of Rage" which means, I assume, these days with lots of wars and things.<br /><br />I know you mentioned the Hunger Games already, but this is something else that takes place sometime in the future, in the ruins of North America. It doesn't actually say when.<br /><br />An interesting book I read was by DJ MacHale. He wrote a series called Pendragon. In book 3, the MC visits "First Earth" which is basically the past. What I really liked about this book was that it took the mysterious crash of a blimp in 1938(?) and connected that to WWI, with a gangster helping the Germans make the atom bomb, leading to a different outcome to the war in which the US is destroyed...<br /><br />The book that I'm writing, Eberheardt, is dystopian, but it's fantasy too. It doesn't take place in this world, but rather an ether-realm type. (Take Eragon, for example. Middle of nowhere. Literally.) So, Eberheardt takes place in a dystopian world with a corrupt, tyrannical, government. It's not finished yet, though.<br /><br />Sorry for the long comment!Riv Rehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09385226727864037794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-68211298891024199432010-06-01T15:53:03.237-04:002010-06-01T15:53:03.237-04:00Great post Julia. I vaguely remember reading that ...Great post Julia. I vaguely remember reading that Orwell picked 1984 because it was the inverse of the year it was written: 1948. He's was writing about the beginnings of the cold war.Angiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587645299751603897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-62552690305312334022010-06-01T14:59:39.881-04:002010-06-01T14:59:39.881-04:00I liked "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin....I liked "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin.Lisa_Gibsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17238496789960349077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-6659470577404004822010-06-01T14:54:15.761-04:002010-06-01T14:54:15.761-04:00I'm prepping outlines for an adventure serial ...I'm prepping outlines for an adventure serial set in an alternate universe (not just alternate history) based on 1914-1927. I like that era, which falls between steampunk and dieselpunk. <br /><br />I'm thinking of calling it "Jazzpunk" or "Flapperpunk." (Or actually, since it really fits in the height of the silent movie era - "flickerpunk.")The Daring Novelisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01676188266569869059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-66679936675945530722010-06-01T13:48:10.118-04:002010-06-01T13:48:10.118-04:00Wonderful article. Leviathan is on my TBR list as ...Wonderful article. Leviathan is on my TBR list as well. <br /><br />I really adore speculative fiction <br />for the simple fact it's recognizable BUT it plays with the questions "what might have been" "what could have been" and, the often frightening, "what might be". <br /><br />Thanks for the great post,<br />JenJenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06683486631901017529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-21034840942375037982010-06-01T12:41:20.050-04:002010-06-01T12:41:20.050-04:00Great article. Personally I like my dystopian to b...Great article. Personally I like my dystopian to be set in the future. Maybe not too far. 50 or 60 years. It's easier to imagine the time in my head as I am reading and gives insight to the paranoid fear that governments can do that, yes really they can fear.Pam Phohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14190817860987781775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-16994413511759826272010-06-01T10:57:43.040-04:002010-06-01T10:57:43.040-04:00I loved Jack McDevitt's Eternity Road. It was ...I loved Jack McDevitt's Eternity Road. It was far into the future, but there were still ruins of present day cities, only the knowledge of how people lived in the cities was lost. It was like us knowing about lost Mayan cities, but only being able to guess what they were like.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13267066733031149882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-60375117417934431532010-06-01T08:52:55.286-04:002010-06-01T08:52:55.286-04:00I've always loved stories set in a vaguely rec...I've always loved stories set in a vaguely recognizable future, which I guess means it is a future that isn't too far away, sort of lurking just around the corner.Alissa Grossohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16701189791875707920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468546013884694910.post-51895718170410195582010-06-01T08:15:27.339-04:002010-06-01T08:15:27.339-04:00Leviathan was great fun, and my son loved it too. ...Leviathan was great fun, and my son loved it too. I realize that many of my favorite books are dystopia- A Handmaid's Tale, 1984, The Giver. Probably The Giver is the one I love the most and that has been the most influential on me.Kelly Brysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08324622421797199560noreply@blogger.com