Re: SF big household names

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Silk  <gilesofham@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Apr 18, 8:48�pm, thro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Wayne Throop) wrote: 
>> :: When i started reading SF my local bookshop was full of Asimovs and
>> :: Clarkes.Whose name now represents SF to non fans now that generation
>> :: has passed? �Gibson? �Ballard?
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>> : Gene Ward Smith <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> : Lucas and Spielberg, but Joss Whedon is coming on strong.
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>> Not Roddenberry? �Or do only living persons count?
>> If mean, which authors in mostly-text media... that's a good
>> question. �I'm not sure I could name somebody a non-fan would
recognize,
>> who's still living.
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>> But even in written works, the non-fan is going to be aware of trek,
>> wars, and maybe aliens/predators/whatnot spinoffs. �None of which
have
>> consistent authors, so they'd remember the franchise originator, I
expect.
>> Whedon would be known, but mostly for Buffy I expect. �How many would
>> know he also did Firefly and Serenity, or care? �I thought Serenity
fell
>> over kind of flat non-fan-public-perception-wise.
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>> Wayne Throop � thro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> i guess i was thinking written sf but on the screen big tv shows like
>Lost with a mainstream following seem to  be getting the public into
>watching sf/ fantasy.

There's a whole different universe in the game world, too.  I remember
seeing a two page spread touting a game that was a civilization simulation
of the colonization of Alpha Centauri (or something like that).  Strange
enough that it was in (I think) Popular Science.  Even stranger that
they were touting some author/game architect in a mode that indicated
that they expected everybody would know who he was.  Sid [something]?

And since then, the Myst and Halo series.  I couldn't name the head
developer of Halo, despite the (local, Seattle) media coverage, but
millions of gamers could.

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