Replies to post #2991 on The Free Zone Board

[was Graywolf]

RE: PK Dick

He seemed to think so. I think his work goes well beyond sci-fi. I also read Stanislav Lem and maintain that his body of work is outside comfortable genre classification. Anyway, I meant 'Phillip K Dick story' as opposed to 'Phillip K Dick novel' because his novels tended to have much more poetic titles, while his stories often had goofy names.

I forget - is he the one behind "Do Androids Dream od Electric Sheep", which became "Blade Runner"? If not, remind me who wrote it - it's been way too long.

[Neuromancer]

Re: eris: I had to cut and paste that header

I also read Stanislav Lem and maintain that his body of work is outside comfortable genre classification.

Awwww cripes. Now I have to go and take back everything I said about you reserving only the "socialist" and "liberal" insults (I have seen too little of your political commentary beyond the Israeli/Arab issue). Anyone who has read Lem is after my own heart.

Damn you Dennis. Damn you to hell!

You are certainly right about the "classifications", but it's easier to keep track of the writers that way. Would anyone properly classify Lem's The Futurological Congress as fantasy, SciFi, or as political commentary? Well, its all three... but it's simply more convenient if we classify it as SciFi (although bookstores have taken to calling that section Fantasy/SciFi as if that fixes the problem).

Ah, well...

(I just don't know you well enough to put important decisions like that into your hands.)

Well... if you're female, single, and are not easily offended by moderately ugly men, then perhaps we should get to know each other better.

After all, anyone who likes Lem...