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Thread ID: 140395 2015-10-04 06:37:00 The movie, The Martian. lakewoodlady (103) PC World Chat
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1409417 2015-10-05 03:51:00 www.epubbud.com

Try this for the book. It downloaded for me. PJ
Poppa John (284)
1409418 2015-10-05 18:16:00 Just to be picky, Sci-Fi is a sub category of fantasy so you do like it :p


No it isn't. It gets lumped in with it, god knows why.

Heard many an argument from the fans.....and the media versus literature debate too. As ti which is "proper" and which isn't.
en.wikipedia.org

Then there is this:
en.wikipedia.org

More my kind of thing.

I count The Martian (book) in the hard SF category.
pctek (84)
1409419 2015-10-05 19:44:00 Sadly it ain't available on The P******** in decent quality yet Greg (193)
1409420 2015-10-05 21:54:00 Good, stop being such a tight ass. I went and saw this last night it is a fantastic film. I went with 2D, I'm really not sure what 3D would have added for most of the movie. Alex B (15479)
1409421 2015-10-05 21:59:00 Well things change, those links are about the definition of sci-fi though, I was just talking about where it fits into literary categories and historically I always understood science fiction was always a sub category under fantasy. Nothing to do with what it is, just how it's categorised.

I tried to find some evidence to back this up and just discovered that it's a contentious issue :) Anyway, not really important. The important thing is science fiction is better :)
dugimodo (138)
1409422 2015-10-05 22:08:00 Science fiction is the future.


you heard it first here folks.

Anyway, i cant wait to see it. definitely my kind of movie. like interstellar.
Gobe1 (6290)
1409423 2015-10-05 22:18:00 I enjoyed insterstellar quite a lot, except for the ending I didn't like that quite as much. dugimodo (138)
1409424 2015-10-05 23:03:00 I enjoyed insterstellar quite a lot, except for the ending I didn't like that quite as much.

Yep , that Interstellar ending ruined the whole experience for me. Felt like I had just wasted my time watching after that last 1/4 of the film.
How hard would it have been to come up with a better ending than being stuck in a bookcase via a black hole, just stupid :yuck:
1101 (13337)
1409425 2015-10-06 01:30:00 I tried to find some evidence to back this up and just discovered that it's a contentious issue :)

LOL. I had a bookshop once. SF...and Fantasy.
Went to a SF convention too.
Contentious is not the word for it.....it can progress to almost violence and then the specifics of exactly what SF etc....like I said, Hard SF, media SF, whatever.....geez, pretty intense.

SF fans are crazy. :-)
pctek (84)
1409426 2015-10-08 11:32:00 Gives me the shits when I go into a bookstore and they have books with god damn unicorns and wizards in the sci-fi section.

Takes a special kind of person to mix up magic and speculative technology.

Anyhow, I read the book in question, I read a few books a week sometimes, It was light weight fluff, with some mumbo jumbo magic thrown in and a slice of gung-ho nonsense.

Entertaining, but not great.
Metla (12)
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