Robots and Aliens vs. Elves and Orcs - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lachwen · 09-12-2004, 03:40 PM

Science fiction doesn't necessarily speak to social issues, Radagastly. Books such as Niven's Footfall (can you tell he's one of my favorite authors?

) and Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind are delightfully devoid of serious social commentary (in fact, Footfall is about killer elephants from outer space

). I am not, of course, claiming that all sci-fi is free of politics; Fallen Angels is very political (and also quite good).

InklingElf - glad to be of service.

09-12-2004, 03:40 PM	#6
Lachwen Wight Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Greenwood the Great. Posts: 115	Science fiction doesn't necessarily speak to social issues, Radagastly. Books such as Niven's Footfall (can you tell he's one of my favorite authors? ) and Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind are delightfully devoid of serious social commentary (in fact, Footfall is about killer elephants from outer space ). I am not, of course, claiming that all sci-fi is free of politics; Fallen Angels is very political (and also quite good). InklingElf - glad to be of service. __________________ "'...Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.'"

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