From: David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Science Fiction In General... Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:25:54 -0500
I've read all of them but _The Crystal City_. I do confess to being a bit upset when I discovered that _Seventh Son_ was only the start of a series! (I thought it was stand-alone when I bought it.)
Same here! I knew about the Alvin series, just didn't tie Seventh Son into it!!
I do quite like the books, although the last two didn't seem to move the series forward as much as the first three did.
Thanks for the insight.
Alvin doesn't seem to be too much of a "superman" for me. He basically has one extra power, in a world where many people have such "knacks". It is a nice general power, but a lot of his progress is because of his own struggles.
True. But it's still the inherent greatness routine.
Now is it Science Fiction? I'd say yes, if only in a general sense. Card has imagined a world with not too many differences from our own past, and thought through the consequences of those differences pretty carefully. That is the core of Science Fiction, isn't it?
---David
What? Science fiction needs high technology? Says who?
First of all I'm not quite sure why everyone answers that unasked question!<lol> I assume it's due to me posting about "Seventh Son" in the Science Fiction In General thread.
Anyhow as for it being sci-fi, it's borderline. Like you said about the technology aspect of it all, "says who?"
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