tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158466.post115029332293124989..comments2023-10-23T12:19:56.802-05:00Comments on A LOW PROFILE: Uber Spy Author Gets Virtually ScaryGennitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05560547131612743465noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158466.post-1150378795533990322006-06-15T08:39:00.000-05:002006-06-15T08:39:00.000-05:00I don't know how the rest of the world defines it,...I don't know how the rest of the world defines it, but I have the Mary Stella interpretation for my own reading choices.<BR/><BR/>If the action takes place on a planet other than Earth, or the Earthbound action involves beings from another planet, it's sci-fi. (Unless it's wizards and faeries and that ilk from other planets, in which case, it's fantasy.)<BR/><BR/>If the action takes place on Earth with characters that aren't completely human, or that have psychic or magical abilities, then it's paranormal. *vbg*<BR/><BR/>Except for Nora Roberts books that involve ghosts, faeries, witches or murder mysteries that take place in 2059. Nora is her own category -- or her own many categories. *vbg*<BR/><BR/>This might not make sense to anyone else but me, but I get it.Mary Stellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02186261066656584772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158466.post-1150378398463894842006-06-15T08:33:00.000-05:002006-06-15T08:33:00.000-05:00Oooh, thank you, Athena, Kathleen, Laur, and SQ, f...Oooh, thank you, Athena, Kathleen, Laur, and SQ, for taking the time to answer my questions! I think I get a better feel of the genre when I read your comments, even from someone like Laur, who has a better definition--like, don't like, LOVE ;-).<BR/><BR/>Hey Laur,<BR/>That was The Incredible Shrinking Man. Wasn't that a KEWL movie? I watched it when I was probably 10 or 12 and I still remembered it for the longest time. I caught it on Scifi channel about four or five years ago. Of course I rewatched it!<BR/><BR/>SQ,<BR/>Hot commandos, check. Random explosion, hmm...how about random action scene? Check!<BR/><BR/>The subservient chicken--watch him tap dance!!!!Gennitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05560547131612743465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158466.post-1150317578519221912006-06-14T15:39:00.000-05:002006-06-14T15:39:00.000-05:00Athena said it well, but I'd add that futuristics ...Athena said it well, but I'd add that futuristics are less technology based; they're the romance version of science fantasy/space opera. They make assumptions about advances in technology, but they don't really explore how those advances affect the characters; what's important is the Adventure/Romance. Think Star Wars (science fantasy) vs. 2001: A Space Odyssey (science fiction).<BR/><BR/>IMO, your SSS books would be sci-fi romance because, as you noted, some elements are still theoretical, and it apparently explores the technology's effects through/on the romance.Kathleen Dantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00224060296528708475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158466.post-1150303185024754062006-06-14T11:39:00.000-05:002006-06-14T11:39:00.000-05:00Hmm, Sci-fi for me is Star Treck kind of stories: ...Hmm, Sci-fi for me is Star Treck kind of stories: spaceships on other planets...there's probably more to it but that's what it brings to my mind so I'm not very receptive.<BR/>I like paranormal books about mediums or people with similar powers. I'm not attracked by the vampire trend (at least in books, I was after all, following Buffy in her adventures).<BR/>As for futuristic, how far in the future qualifies? Eve and Rourke stories are futuristic but easy to believe. Right now I'm readin Linda Howard's Killing time. The stoty happens in 2005 but the heroine comes from the future, so what is it?<BR/>See, I'm not qualified to give you definitions. For me there are usually 3 categories : I don't like, I like and I looooove *s*<BR/><BR/>And, OMG, that movie about the guy getting smaller, I remember that! Didn't he go into a fog and started shrinking?<BR/>Wow, I had totally forgotten about this one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158466.post-1150299899953190262006-06-14T10:44:00.000-05:002006-06-14T10:44:00.000-05:00I believe that sci fi has more technology in it wh...I believe that sci fi has more technology in it whereas paranormal is stuff that cannot be explained. Like ghosts and shit like that. Technology even if it does not make sense to everyone does actually have a meaning something that normal people can grasp onto that oh yeah i could do that if i wanted too. Whereas paranormal is vampires and ghosts which people can't learn to see or hear. So it is considered something that could never happen. You might notice though that mediums and such are more open well science has come more in their favor so they are not as critisized as they once were. For although normal people can't do it. Science can explain it. Now trying to say that a vampire exists? that's a different story. And futuristic? Thoughts that take place in the future. Yours is present simply because your ideas are in the now, not something that might happen in the future but WILL happen in the future. Or at least more commonly. ~AthenaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com