If you feel like I've stepped on your toes, then of course it's personal, and I apologize.
I did not express myself properly, due partly to (a.) using a piece of personal shorthand (http://truepenny.livejournal.com/422361.html), (b.) sloppy synechdoche, and (c.) not having the sense to delete a paragraph which was opening a can of worms I didn't want to deal with. And which was irrelevant to what I was trying to say, anyway, and I don't know why I included it.
What I was trying to say, and failing, is that wonder is a laudable goal, and you don't have to be writing science fiction either to seek it or to achieve it. And I think, trying to reconstruct my train of thought, that I brought "hard sf" into the conversation because it does prioritize wonder as part of its self-definition, and because I think fantasy should do likewise but often doesn't.
Which is a better thing to say than what I actually said.
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Date: 2006-06-18 04:02 am (UTC)I did not express myself properly, due partly to (a.) using a piece of personal shorthand (http://truepenny.livejournal.com/422361.html), (b.) sloppy synechdoche, and (c.) not having the sense to delete a paragraph which was opening a can of worms I didn't want to deal with. And which was irrelevant to what I was trying to say, anyway, and I don't know why I included it.
What I was trying to say, and failing, is that wonder is a laudable goal, and you don't have to be writing science fiction either to seek it or to achieve it. And I think, trying to reconstruct my train of thought, that I brought "hard sf" into the conversation because it does prioritize wonder as part of its self-definition, and because I think fantasy should do likewise but often doesn't.
Which is a better thing to say than what I actually said.