Bradbury & Moore (things are getting wierd)

[erickad71]

I think it is somewhat interesting to hear what celebrities think of the issues of the day, but I don't look to them for guidance. Or to help me form my own opinion. Celebrities do influence quite a few people here in the states, personally I don't think that should keep them from expressing their own opinion when it's asked for.

 

[littlemissattitude]

I think it is somewhat interesting to hear what celebrities think of the issues of the day, but I don't look to them for guidance. Or to help me form my own opinion. Celebrities do influence quite a few people here in the states, personally I don't think that should keep them from expressing their own opinion when it's asked for.

I don't actually know that many people who form opinions based on what celebreties say, except in the negative sense of, "Well, if that's what (insert celeb's name) thinks, then I'll believe just the opposite". Personally, I find it interesting to know what all people believe, not just celebreties, because I am interested in belief systems and the thought processes that feed into them. But I don't assign any more importance to a celebrety's opinions than I do anyone else's. I'm thoroughly in favor of making up my own mind about things. Which some people find to be an irritating quality. Oh, well.

 

[Foxbat]

I find it ironic in a sense that many writers feel the need to say anything in public - when they have the perfect vehicle with which to express their views - namely their novels and short stories. SF and Fantasy are particularly well suited in this area, in that, the writer can create a whole world which can be geared to getting across a particular idea or POV - kind of like a lab experiment.
Well ...that's my opinion anyway

On the Heinlein point - I agree about his characters. All his novels just seem to melt into one continuous mush.

 

[littlemissattitude]

On the Heinlein point - I agree about his characters. All his novels just seem to melt into one continuous mush.

Me, too. Two of his novels, "I Will Fear No Evil" and "Time Enough for Love", have so grown together in my mind that I cannot recall which events happened in which novel. I have begun to suspect that they are actually the same novel.

 

[ravenus]

Out here in India, by the way, nearly every writer around seems quite politicised, and people do take it fairly seriously.

Whoa knivesout, you seem to talk of a different India than the place I live in. I'm admittedly not an avid reader of regional writing but in general most of the the Indian writers I've read aren't very politicised and AFAIK people don't take them too seriously, case in point Arundhati Roy, who was liked enough when she released God of Small Things but (IMO, rightfully) disowned like the pariah dog once she began to bore everyone with her stance on the NBA and India's nuclear program.
Please don't mention the writers from Kerala because that state itself is an aberration in terms of the inordinate interest in political affairs that its denizens have.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

As a matter of fact, I may have been thinking more of down south, not just Kerala but also Tamil Nadu to an extent. Certainly, I find writers making poitical remarks the few times they pop up in the papers and then you have Naipaul who seems to be flirting with a lot of poitical sorts.

 

[rtroxel]

Although I certainly wouldn't call the bulk of his work as SF, it's a lot more in the vein of fantasy, albeit not the tired multi-volume swords-and-sorcery yada that has come to characterize the genre for the masses.

I agree. Given the decision of whether to borrow "Martian Chronicles" from the library, or plop down ten bucks to see "Revenge of the Sith", I went for the "Chronicles".