Greebo's Big One
Created | Updated Jul 11, 2003
It's Wednesday already, and I woke up this morning and realised that I hadn't done this week's 'Big One'. So, rushing to my computer I hastily, though with great skill and professionalism, threw together this week's vote. A moral dilemma this one folks; what will you decide to do?
Would you like your say on the big issues of the day? Well here's your chance, click below to get transported to Greebo's voting booth, where you can answer the question of the week.
Results will be printed in two weeks time.
VOTE HERE
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GREEBO'S BIG ONE RESULTS
This was the question asked a couple of weeks ago, and below is the results of the voting...
Which is your favourite book genre?
- 36% of H2G2 researchers say that fantasy is by far the best book genre.
- But another 36% of H2G2 researchers also say that science fiction is the best book genre.
- A quite modestly big 21% of researchers admitted that they can't read.
- A soppy 3% of researchers believe that romance is the only book for them.
- Another 3% believed that film/tv tie in's, were the books to read.
- A final 1% of H2G2 researchers were too interested in reading the question to answer.
This vote I have to say, was the biggest since Greebo's Big One started. Still hardly surprising since reading has probably brought 98% of us to h2g2.
It's a shame that there was no clear winner, Fantasy and Science Fiction both receiving the same number of votes. Though, if you people are anything like me, then you actually like both genre's, so maybe that's the reason.
A startling large proportion of readers can't read, which is a mind bogglingly odd fact!!! Hmmm... is bogglingly an actual word? Does it matter... ~grin~... 21% of you won't be able to read it anyway... ~bigger grin~... so am I sitting here, writing to myself?? Time to end this before I depress myself, see you next week folks.
Ray Bradbury
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.
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Frank Herbert
Science fiction represents the modern heresy and the cutting edge of speculative imagination as it grapples with Mysterious Time---linear or non-linear time.
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Kingsley Amis
Science Fiction is that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesized on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terresial in origin.
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Isaac Asimov
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us, the possible consequences, and the possible solutions.
That branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance upon human beings.
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Gregory Benford
SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible.
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Thanks again everyone...
Greebs
