read more sci-fi

only for a moment then the moment's gone, these are fleeting thoughts of some icons of science fiction writing that came to mind as the Prophets of Science Fiction series played in the background on the television... and if your mind stills thinks science fiction is a small niche of literature, here is something that might change your mind... anyway, for the moment (quite momentary as i might have spent three minutes writing the words), this are the thoughts the series and my memories of the writers and their stories inspire... eventually maybe i will throw a whole lot of links into this brief perception...

in the absence of well made (or even any) films to watch to get into the stories of the slightly mad minds known as science fiction writers, i really ought to read more... H.G. Wells was pure genius... Isaac Asimov was brilliant scientist exploring a myriad possibilities along a narrower band of reality-based science fiction... Robert Heinlein channeled Walt Disney and Adolph Hitler and a bit of Nostradamus, rebel borderline paranoid libertarian sociologist projecting his fears and dreams to as many landscapes as he could imagine... he pushed the limits of human behavior into a social experience the way Asimov pushed the science... Philip K. Dick was a paranoid drug user, a child of George Orwell's 1984, projecting paranoid possibilities into somewhat reasonable social paradigms based on the aspect of human nature that seeks control over others and everything... like most paranoid humans (and many are), he was susceptible to any number of imaginary and/or delusional influences that became fodder for his stories... Arthur Clarke took Asimov's path through the science to explore the possibilities...

tbc?... hope so, there are many parts of my brain that would like to make time to explore more science fiction again... in fact, devoting time to that could easily lead to a blog about the reading (as i tend to have some ideas some might call, ummm, strange?... someday... somewhere... somehow...

narfinity :)