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The 3 problems with scifi
First is it’s widespread acceptance. It’s in every action movie, mostly in comic book form, the product of Star Wars, adventure fantasy. Things explode, people are shot, some special effects happen, but it’s all just mishmash with no unifying picture beyond what looks cool. It’s Firefly, toying around with the western, lacking the messiness of slavery. It’s Heinlein’s powered suit, fighting capital E, evil, with none of the philosophy to think about between action scenes. It’s Dr Who farce, without the biting wit of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide.
It’s not just the movies, it’s the dull little cul de sacs like Steampunk, which just seems like endless variations on Dickens and Verne, without the social commentary of Dickens or the inventions of Verne. It is zombie stories. There was a time when it seemed like the English produced a never ending stream of possible apocalypses, Triffids, droughts, plagues, drownings, meteors, and even the death of grass, endless apocalypses and post-apocalypses. At least there was some variation, rather than the same undead eating machines ever since Matheson decided to play about with reinventing the vampire. It’s the endless masturbation of alternative history novels which are never anything new as much as just another version of the happened. When it was Piper, Leiber or Anderson the ideas were still somewhat fresh, but there isn’t much new to say about alternative worlds or time travel, that wasn’t said in the pages of Astounding. You get a few novel takes on the subjects, sort of a post-modernist version of scifi when SM Stirling gives his rebuttal to the “great man theory” of classics like Connecticut Yankee, just as Max Brooks’ World War Z experimented with the apocalypse novel recast as social history, but neither is really new scifi, as much as clever ways to offer the same ideas up anew.
Secondly, it’s the the teen market. Now I’m not saying all teen scifi is bad, I’m not sure where scifi would be today without the Heinlein juveniles or novels such as Palmer’s Emergence, but where much of the older scfi might be easily read by teens, today’s teen market seems to only want teenagers. The big paydays involved with teen movies and books seem to be sapping some of the better talent. Paolo Bacigalup’s Wind Up Girl and Cory Doctrow’s Makers seemed to promise some new ideas, but they retreat back into children’s books, content to write for an uncritical audience. Much of the rest of the teen writers seem content to just recycle old ideas, which leads to the endless dystopian novels and teen power fantasies. Worlds the only people who can do things are teen girls in love. The Chrysalids ad infintum.
Last, and most dangerous is the flipside of my first complaint. Just as the acceptance of scifi has led to it’s use in action movies, the acceptance of scfi has siphoned off the best of the newer scfi writers into the mainstream. The genre has always hemorrhaged some of the best. Orwell’s 1984 isn’t shelved in the ghetto, Vonnegut one day was sitting with Sturgeon and the next day with Phillip Roth, Margaret Atwood may have never been nominated for Hugo, but she should have been acknowledged as the sister to Ursula Le Guin. Haruki Murakami might be so unlike Tolkien that it’s spawned it’s own label of magical realism, but it’s fantasy. The number of such books on the “regular fiction” shelves seems to grow. More and more the distinction, the isolation that made the sub culture we knew as scifi possible is gone( to crib William Gibson) and with that escape from the genre ghetto, we have lost the conventions of the ghetto, the customs of the tribe that make scifi so special to us, the focus on the technology and it’s ramifications, rather than just the low brow explosions, or the intricacies of philosophy made flesh.
Then there are the days where I dismiss rage & depression and remember the words of a great man “Sure 90% of scifi is crap, but 90% of everything is crap.”

The 3 problems with scifi
First is it’s widespread acceptance. It’s in every action movie, mostly in comic book form, the product of Star Wars, adventure fantasy. Things explode, people are shot, some special effects happen, but it’s all just mishmash with no unifying picture beyond what looks cool. It’s Firefly, toying around with the western, lacking the messiness of slavery. It’s Heinlein’s powered suit, fighting capital E, evil, with none of the philosophy to think about between action scenes. It’s Dr Who farce, without the biting wit of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide.
It’s not just the movies, it’s the dull little cul de sacs like Steampunk, which just seems like endless variations on Dickens and Verne, without the social commentary of Dickens or the inventions of Verne. It is zombie stories. There was a time when it seemed like the English produced a never ending stream of possible apocalypses, Triffids, droughts, plagues, drownings, meteors, and even the death of grass, endless apocalypses and post-apocalypses. At least there was some variation, rather than the same undead eating machines ever since Matheson decided to play about with reinventing the vampire. It’s the endless masturbation of alternative history novels which are never anything new as much as just another version of the happened. When it was Piper, Leiber or Anderson the ideas were still somewhat fresh, but there isn’t much new to say about alternative worlds or time travel, that wasn’t said in the pages of Astounding. You get a few novel takes on the subjects, sort of a post-modernist version of scifi when SM Stirling gives his rebuttal to the “great man theory” of classics like Connecticut Yankee, just as Max Brooks’ World War Z experimented with the apocalypse novel recast as social history, but neither is really new scifi, as much as clever ways to offer the same ideas up anew.
Secondly, it’s the the teen market. Now I’m not saying all teen scifi is bad, I’m not sure where scifi would be today without the Heinlein juveniles or novels such as Palmer’s Emergence, but where much of the older scfi might be easily read by teens, today’s teen market seems to only want teenagers. The big paydays involved with teen movies and books seem to be sapping some of the better talent. Paolo Bacigalup’s Wind Up Girl and Cory Doctrow’s Makers seemed to promise some new ideas, but they retreat back into children’s books, content to write for an uncritical audience. Much of the rest of the teen writers seem content to just recycle old ideas, which leads to the endless dystopian novels and teen power fantasies. Worlds the only people who can do things are teen girls in love. The Chrysalids ad infintum.
Last, and most dangerous is the flipside of my first complaint. Just as the acceptance of scifi has led to it’s use in action movies, the acceptance of scfi has siphoned off the best of the newer scfi writers into the mainstream. The genre has always hemorrhaged some of the best. Orwell’s 1984 isn’t shelved in the ghetto, Vonnegut one day was sitting with Sturgeon and the next day with Phillip Roth, Margaret Atwood may have never been nominated for Hugo, but she should have been acknowledged as the sister to Ursula Le Guin. Haruki Murakami might be so unlike Tolkien that it’s spawned it’s own label of magical realism, but it’s fantasy. The number of such books on the “regular fiction” shelves seems to grow. More and more the distinction, the isolation that made the sub culture we knew as scifi possible is gone( to crib William Gibson) and with that escape from the genre ghetto, we have lost the conventions of the ghetto, the customs of the tribe that make scifi so special to us, the focus on the technology and it’s ramifications, rather than just the low brow explosions, or the intricacies of philosophy made flesh.
Then there are the days where I dismiss rage & depression and remember the words of a great man “Sure 90% of scifi is crap, but 90% of everything is crap.”

Dear advisers, i got many good answers and help online for my case and i find them useful but i still have many things in my mind:
this was the case:
i am a girl 29 years old a muslim,, i have been sexually abused 8 years before .. i was sexually harassed by the person i had to work with at that time i was 21 and he was 43 Jewish man in a security company …he had a high position in charge of the project we were working on and i was his assistant and translator which mean that i was totally under his control …. he threatened me not to talk and kicked me ut of the job and told my family that he had caught me with a young guy in office doing sex… since that time i live in horror fear of what happened to me and the lie he made on me … i almost lost my family’s trust in me and i almost cant have nice job or to marry a good nice person i admire.. i cannot fall in love and i have sexual problems fearing harassment again .. a few months before he sent a young guy this time who is under age 17 to force me have sex with me and sent me threatening message by imprisoning me if i dont have sex with him..i live in far and have lost self confidence and cannot defend on myself … i am scared if he kidnapped me and take to prostitution business.. i see bad dreams at night and my family is so helpless… please advise ? an anonymous person …
I still need support?
i agree with these suggestions and advises given by those people online.. i never want to be someone’s object and no one is born to humiliate and exploit me in a life given by God to me but my location the place where i live is very complicated … we don’t have embassies and consulates who provide people with visas.. i am in a country already passed and finished war… it is chaotic .. governments and official are busy with constitution, security, political matters .. my problem will make no meaning to them .. and we have one thousand family problem a sister of mine who is 37 is a revolutionist working with rebellious group and she is having gun and weapon with her all the time and she is from a very dangerous tribal network in which it is hard to escape … if i get 100 meters away from home will come and follow me and imprison me in a room .. my brother is also affiliated with same tribe and rebellious group they have closed tight mentality … i have thought to escape and leave country but there is no way ,, no visas are issues from any embassy beside if i visit any of them they will reject me because i am a girl , let’s say woman and not married… all the ties and political relations that those embassies have is with government and they both together have list of names of some families who are eligible and permitted to leave country … i am not coming from in just place … during out these 10 years i have tried to escape .. but failed .. i went to Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Holland, even Belgium for a very short stay .. they have very restricted rules and i have very limited freedom to get to them.. and ask for residency or protection or shelter… i had been abused and harassed by foreigners and i am muslim as i told you.. and my family has been accused of terrorism action … because as i mentioned my brother and my sister belong to a tribal network who have connection with terrorist organizations… if i open my mouth in any place outside country will not work because if i ask for residency protection shelter whatsoever else they will open up terrorism case as well … in a simple words i am living in Iraq and the person who have abused me is a high military official with coalition forces in Iraq and is in command of US army’s security for my region the city which i live in iraq called Erbil…women’s organizations , shelters and other places are affiliated with dirty business they will victimize me twice if i go to them will target me to work officially with prostitution networks in kurdistan and they will force me to spy in amry in iraq because i can speak good English they force me to travel all over Iraq and spy among US army to steal and collect them information .. or they will force me to make seminars and workshops to tell community that i am victim and talk about my experience in public which is again another deforming attempt and destruction to my life … and i will never try smuggling way to go illegal from Turkey and find way out to Europe and US …it will cost me my life .. so i am struggling between life and death .. I tried telling someone outside but the attempt failed and i found myself in hands of my family …i believe if i continue with you online i will find a solution because i felt so encouraged talking to you people online … thank for your help and advise it is helping me so please continue with me for a while at least i know there is someone who knows about me and i loved the statement justice cannot be found everywhere that is why i am not trying court …

To Whom It May Concern:
My name is . This letter concerns my admission to the University of Saskatchewan and I hope I am accepted for the Summer 2013 term.
I would like to pursue my education further, it gives me a sense of accomplishment. I believe, with a University Degree, I will be able to enter the labour force with that much more leverage. I see success from the lens of education, the more educated one is, the more successful he/she is. I plan to make school my top priority to ensure that my grades are as high as they can be!
Furthermore, I would like to pursue an undergraduate education because it gives a greater clarity of mind and encourages creativity. I am really passionate about my community, but without a post-secondary degree, I am unable to get involved in my community in the capacity I would enjoy working in. My passion has always been biology. In high school it was the subject that I was most involved in. After my undergraduate degree I would like to enrol in a post-grad program to further my learning and thinking. I think with the University of Saskatchewan having the ability to offer so many different programs at the undergrad and graduate level helps a enhance the development of character and personality, not necessarily to get a well-paid post.
Gradually, I would like to either follow my mother’s footsteps and become a teacher or even get into a science graduate program which is my passion. My mother has been a teacher for the past 30 years of her life, 15 of them being with the Toronto District School Board. My mother has always been a point of inspiration as she was the first female in our family to get a post-secondary education about 30 years ago. She paved the path and many of my female cousin sisters were able to become doctors and engineers after she carved the path for them. I want to create a niche for myself, and be able to in a way give back to the community that has given me so much to be thankful for.
In the past, I have had the chance for the past few years to be a part of a major airline. I had been working as cabin crew for Emirates and it has enabled me to have many different qualities which would work in my favour when undergoing my undergrad studies. As cabin crew we are responsible for what happens in the aircraft. We all have designated areas that we look after. I would like to start off by explaining the job outline of a cabin crew.
The job outline of a cabin crew is
● greeting passengers as they board and exit the plane;
● showing passengers to their seats and providing special attention to certain passengers, such as the elderly or disabled;
● serving meals and refreshments;
● checking the condition and provision of emergency equipment and information for passengers;
● demonstrating emergency equipment and safety procedures;
● administering first aid;
● dealing with emergencies;
● supplying passengers with newspapers, magazines and in-flight entertainment;
● selling duty-free commercial goods and pursuing sales targets;
● producing written flight reports after completing a journey.
As you can see there is a high degree of responsibility involved, and cabin crew are expected to deal with all passengers diplomatically – even when feeling the effects of travelling through time zones and spending extended periods of time on their feet. I know the fact that I had this much responsibility on me has led me to be a stronger individual and able to prioritize. I have had to give up a lot of my social life to work odd hours, and I know university can be like that, it is all about prioritizing your work and working efficiently. I know that when there is a lot of work piled on to you, you have to just get it done. It means a lot of anti-social nights but that is ok because I am used to it.
By working for Emirates this past year, and having several other part/full time jobs over the last 3 years, I have been able to save up for a University Education. This means, I can divert all of my focus in attaining this University Degree without having to worry about my finances.
In addition, I have developed problem solving, leadership and communication skills. I was able to develop these qualities because of the extensive training I received while working for Emirates and also because I lived alone for the first time in my life. It was one of the most difficult and challenging periods in my life as I was an alien to this land, but thankfully I managed and have come out a very strong person. I have learnt lessons that will help me manage all situations in my life.