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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
the other thing i forgot to answer to severian is that-- his complaint seemed to me in the end about scientists not taking science fiction seriously. which, ok. why would they?
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Well, that really wasn't my complaint. I didn't mean to make it sound like it was. No, some of my science profs didn't like it. But I was just using that to point out that it's acceptability in academia isn't, from my experience, very far reaching or widespread.
But on the other hand, you say why should they, I might ask why shouldn't they? If it's just fiction after all, why should it be less accepted by anyone than any other type of fiction? Just playing devil's advocate here.
Avatar was terrible. Let's not talk about that at all.