On Space Opera
Lynda's notes (Jun 22, 2001) on the quote, below,
from source cited:
Good mythology has a bite to it. I've always felt I was recycling
my love of epic literature, too, in my own writing. Science
Fiction is inheritor of the big questions in a world ashamed
to admit to any.
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> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Ian Sales wrote:
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> > > I'm with you Ian. I've stopped appologizing for writing it, and got in
> > > touch with all that's mythic and epic in my background which I believe
> > > "space opera" taps into. Big themes on big issues. The modern "everyman"
> > > play, Greek myth and epic cycle - deliberately plugged into themes which
> > > the potence of modern science begs mankind to re-examine. ( - lynda)
> >
> > Space opera has the widest remit of all sub-genres of SF. It's also the one
most likely to descend into pure escapism--cf Simon R Green's DEATHSTALKER
books. Which sort of makes sense: it's the easiest sub-genre to do badly and
the hardest to do well. Real SF writers write space opera :-)
> >
> > - ian
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