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Since nothing in this community is about technology we might as well talk about science fiction. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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All the stories on the FP are about labor relations and corporate shenanigans. So anyway, do you like Star Trek or Star Wars better? Anybody still ike to read old school sci fi, for example I really love Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League stories - the swashbuckling adventures of intersteller trador Nicholas van Rijn and his Solar Spice and Liquors company, David Falkayne, et al. Good old basic space opera.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

What boggles my mind is that there have been about fifty movies based on Philip K. Dick and zero based on Poul Anderson.

Anderson has galactic empires, roguish heroes, dozens of alien species, strong females, etc etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

PKD is special somehow. He's the one author where, I think, the movies are better than the books pretty consistently. Maybe it's luck or my flawed opinion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think Dick was writing to be read in a particular time and place. Take Dashiell Hammett. 'Red Harvest' works a century later. there are some references that are dated [wearing a red tie] but overall you can give the novel to a modern person without a great deal of explanation needed. 'The Thin Man' requires a ton of annotation to be understood.

imho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. Partly because the movies have actual endings...

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