How would people like Jules Verne and H.G Wells react to modern sci-fi. leave your opinions below.
how would the fathers of science fiction react to sci fi today
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They'd be utterly amused. Which is the point, so I'd like to say they'd enjoy it. Especially doctor who.
They would find it amusing, but I'm sure they would see it in the same way they would see an amusing book. I don't think they would be upset or even fascinated, just amused.
Unless they took ideas from it and started a project to look into it, that would be special.
Unless they took ideas from it and started a project to look into it, that would be special.
fuck what they'd think of science fiction, what would they think of Science?
I mean, HG Wells and Jules Verne wrote science fiction about stuff that was hardly even contemplatable in their time - but a lot of it has actually happened, or is capable of happening, or we're currently formulating and postulating actual ideas about how it could possibly happen.
These things weren't possibilities when they were writing - they were writing pure fiction, maybe in some vain hope that one day we would see the capabilities they pondered about come to light.
Show them some of the work of Stephen Hawking.. Show them that the truth being discovered and sorted out in physics that's happening at this moment is much stranger then anything science fiction has ever come up with.
I mean, HG Wells and Jules Verne wrote science fiction about stuff that was hardly even contemplatable in their time - but a lot of it has actually happened, or is capable of happening, or we're currently formulating and postulating actual ideas about how it could possibly happen.
These things weren't possibilities when they were writing - they were writing pure fiction, maybe in some vain hope that one day we would see the capabilities they pondered about come to light.
Show them some of the work of Stephen Hawking.. Show them that the truth being discovered and sorted out in physics that's happening at this moment is much stranger then anything science fiction has ever come up with.
You forgot Robert Heinlein.Gnomeking09 said:
And I wouldn't have a clue what they'd think. considering they're dead
How old is modern in your definition? Because Phillip K. Dick's work was often on shaky "real" science ground, but some of the stuff he did with and for the genre is pretty damn amazing and thought provoking.RAKtheUndead said:
EDIT: Not to say there isn't a certain amount of soft sci-fi rubbish, but there is plenty of good stuff that isn't hard as well.
They probably wouldn't recognise the term science fiction and would think that it is mostly over stylised nonsense for half wits or packed with impenetrable jargon that doesn't speak to enough people. They would wonder where the serious speculation about the future had gone and why there was so much mindless sex and violence.
Yeah, they would be too busy reading science journals to give a toss about overweight grown men playing with toy light swords.Altorin said:
I think they would enjoy it - they would grasp the concepts or robots and cyborgs instantly.
Their science fiction was awesome and at times non-futuristic in terms of technology and setting, so I am unsure how they will react to "everything being in the future, just so they dont have to explain some stuff"
Their science fiction was awesome and at times non-futuristic in terms of technology and setting, so I am unsure how they will react to "everything being in the future, just so they dont have to explain some stuff"
They would probably wonder why all the women of the future (in sci fi shows) had big racks or are otherwise hot.
In some respects they'd be quite pleased, not least with Star Trek continuing their big ideas. On the other hand, SG1 probably has them spinning in their graves (it's great, but it's not exactly about social reform and hope for humanity's future).Gnomeking09 said:
I think they'd probably enjoy and understand modern sci-fi, they'd also probably be surprised at how little real humans have moved on. For all our computers and such we're still planet bound, by 2000 we were supposed to at least have colonised the Moon.