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July 27, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed

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Modern SF

I think Netflix's Black Mirror may merit mention on this page. If there can be some consensus I wouldn't mind writing up a few paragraphs about the show. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:4480:2D00:6DA0:9CAC:937E:5070 (talk) 12:34, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Burroughs

The article describes Naked Lunch as the first in a series of novels using the cut-up method. Although episodic and fragmented, Naked Lunch did not use the cut-up method. I'm not sure if he had started using cut-ups before Naked Lunch was published, but NL itself was done before the discovery of cut-ups. Adkins (talk) 14:37, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

lucian's "a true story"

should the above mentioned story be considered science fiction? Manumaker08 (talk) 17:54, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Proto-SF Gets Way Too Much Emphasis

Brian Aldiss (and I) consider Frankenstein (1818) to be the earliest work of science fiction. Why then in an article purported to be about the history of science fiction is this earliest work not mentioned until almost the halfway point of this chronological entry? In my opinion, all that proto-SF stuff that comes before 1818 needs to either be greatly condensed, comprising no more than 10% of the article, or have its own article titled "proto-SF". There has been a lot that has happened these past forty-odd years in SF. The last two sections could/should be considerably expanded. I'm for a better balanced article by reducing the front load and expanding the latter part. DanQuigley 04:06, 23 December 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanQuigley (talk • contribs)

I agree. In fact, the proto part contains unsourced POV. As an example, I would immediately delete the following:

The ancient Hindu mythological epic the Mahabharata (8th and 9th centuries BCE) includes the story of King Kakudmi, who travels to heaven to meet the creator Brahma and is shocked to learn that many ages have passed when he returns to Earth, anticipating the concept of time travel.^[1]

This is unsourced opinion (the citation is merely a summary of the myth). To say this is time travel in the science-fictional sense is silly. The concept of time dilation while visiting the gods or fairies is common and is pure fantasy when it lacks any connection with science or logic. Zaslav (talk) 06:47, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Gibbs, Laura. "Revati". Encyclopedia for Epics of Ancient India. Archived from the original on 30 July 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2013.

Science fiction narratives

To 217.164.100.181 (talk) 09:15, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Gibbs, Laura. "Revati". Encyclopedia for Epics of Ancient India. Archived from the original on 30 July 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2013.

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