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Aug. 17th, 2009 13:14Monday August 10, 2009 Thinking about Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, I remembered this from George Orwell(I think): -"The kind of atheist who seems to not so much disbelieve in God as to have a personal dislike of Him."- (The trilogy has the ruler of Heaven as its main villain.)
Pullman's villain claims to have created the universes, but his claims are false. It could be argued that the author wimped out. Why not the Creator as the villain?
***To Southwest Senior Center, to use the computer lab.
"Today I visited the world's only time traveller supply store, the Echo Park Time Travel Mart.
"The Time Travel Mart is in a run-down district of central Los Angeles, between a bakery and a convenience store. Above the store front is a sign reading 'ECHO PARK TIME TRAVEL MART - WHENEVER YOU ARE, WE'RE ALREADY THEN.' Below is the display window, which has a robot shaking hands with a caveman, and a little sign on the front saying 'Temporal law prohibits the sale of fire to pre-Neolithic men. No upright posture, no mastery of tools, no fire. WE CARD.'"
http://squid314.livejournal.com/261596.html
***General Motors is going to sell cars on eBay. (Google News, several hundred sources.)
Has any science fiction writer or futurologist predicted anything like this? I don't think so.
Will it work? I don't know. I predict that if it does work, someone else will do better than GM at it.
Cautionary note for time travellers: You may be thinking of going back to the 1950s and selling a story which includes this. Don't try it in a serious story; it's too far out. It might be/have been/will be salable in a humorous story.
***On the way home, I saw someone with a button which seemed to say "Reality is sexy." I was disappointed when a closer look gave me "Reading is sexy."
Pullman's villain claims to have created the universes, but his claims are false. It could be argued that the author wimped out. Why not the Creator as the villain?
***To Southwest Senior Center, to use the computer lab.
"Today I visited the world's only time traveller supply store, the Echo Park Time Travel Mart.
"The Time Travel Mart is in a run-down district of central Los Angeles, between a bakery and a convenience store. Above the store front is a sign reading 'ECHO PARK TIME TRAVEL MART - WHENEVER YOU ARE, WE'RE ALREADY THEN.' Below is the display window, which has a robot shaking hands with a caveman, and a little sign on the front saying 'Temporal law prohibits the sale of fire to pre-Neolithic men. No upright posture, no mastery of tools, no fire. WE CARD.'"
http://squid314.livejournal.com/261596.html
***General Motors is going to sell cars on eBay. (Google News, several hundred sources.)
Has any science fiction writer or futurologist predicted anything like this? I don't think so.
Will it work? I don't know. I predict that if it does work, someone else will do better than GM at it.
Cautionary note for time travellers: You may be thinking of going back to the 1950s and selling a story which includes this. Don't try it in a serious story; it's too far out. It might be/have been/will be salable in a humorous story.
***On the way home, I saw someone with a button which seemed to say "Reality is sexy." I was disappointed when a closer look gave me "Reading is sexy."