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Aug. 14th, 2008 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I went to the Norwich Science Fiction Group again. www.nsfg.info
Loud guy was loud, beardy guy knows lots of words and keeps referring to things from the 60s, other people get words in sometimes.
Is conversation. Is good.
Topic for the evening was what makes a good SF story. Loud guy reckoned first we had to define SF. His definition and mine were total opposites of each other. He reckoned we needed consensus. Conversation bounced along without it quite happily. But nobody really got around to saying what makes good SF.
Is okay.
I think SF is following through on the impact of technology on humanity, whatever the setting. He thinks setting is what makes SF, whatever the story that happens in it. We agree not.
... If you can change the setting and still have essentially the same story then why is it SF? It's people charging around doing swashbuckling with more shiny bits is all.
Doctor Who is only intermittently SF by my definition. Or his, if you don't count the time travel box that gets them there. He didn't reckon there could be SF in medeval setting.
So I think it was a good discussion cause nobody agreed and everybody said things and listened and stuff.
I like talking.
Due to scheduling being fun I also have plan go places tomorrow evening.
One group meets every two weeks, the other once a month, and they end up in the same two days.
I talked and didn't stutter and made points and followed conversations, once I found somewhere to jump on sort of thing. Is good.
Loud guy was loud, beardy guy knows lots of words and keeps referring to things from the 60s, other people get words in sometimes.
Is conversation. Is good.
Topic for the evening was what makes a good SF story. Loud guy reckoned first we had to define SF. His definition and mine were total opposites of each other. He reckoned we needed consensus. Conversation bounced along without it quite happily. But nobody really got around to saying what makes good SF.
Is okay.
I think SF is following through on the impact of technology on humanity, whatever the setting. He thinks setting is what makes SF, whatever the story that happens in it. We agree not.
... If you can change the setting and still have essentially the same story then why is it SF? It's people charging around doing swashbuckling with more shiny bits is all.
Doctor Who is only intermittently SF by my definition. Or his, if you don't count the time travel box that gets them there. He didn't reckon there could be SF in medeval setting.
So I think it was a good discussion cause nobody agreed and everybody said things and listened and stuff.
I like talking.
Due to scheduling being fun I also have plan go places tomorrow evening.
One group meets every two weeks, the other once a month, and they end up in the same two days.
I talked and didn't stutter and made points and followed conversations, once I found somewhere to jump on sort of thing. Is good.