moret@unmvax.UUCP (05/01/84)
I am getting *very* irritated with net.sf-lovers. After a flurry of articles
finding Solaris--which is one of the 10-20 greatest SF novels ever, and surely
a masterpiece on the nature of communication--I had to encounter two articles
wondering what everybody thought was so great about Dick's
Man in the High Castle... (I don't think that one has to remember WWII
to react to that book; I wasn't born by 1945. There is a lot to get out
of Dick's novel, about everyday life, about cultural influence, about
human values, but most of all about the meaning of reality.
Why is it SF? Well, why is LeGuin's magnificent The Dispossessed classified
as SF? It's just a label and should not imply anything more than "fiction
based upon a different view of the world"; doesn't SF mean Speculative
Fiction?)
>From the content of these articles about Lem and Dick and several other news
articles (such as the running commentary about FTL travel and high-speed
cameras), I must conclude that I have subscribed to the wrong newsgroup.
Imagine: I thought that this newsgroup was for people interested in SF
*literature*, for people who considered SF a form of *art*, NOT a form
of technical writing.