Comments on: Silly Fantasies http://www.orbitbooks.net/2009/10/05/silly-fantasies/ Orbit Books Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:58:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven Klotz http://www.orbitbooks.net/2009/10/05/silly-fantasies/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 Steven Klotz Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:59:00 +0000 http://www.orbitbooks.net/?p=4410#comment-1254 My initial reaction to this was "SFF is also all orange if you look through the right filter." As an individual interacting with reality, I find myself to be silly and find silliness in my surroundings. However, I tend to take my speculative fiction VERY serious. There's something powerful about dealing with unconstrained ideas. Reality is a spectrum of silliness from cute kittens to health-care debates. It's also possible I'm just being contrary, so as to inject just a bit more silliness into this discussion. My initial reaction to this was “SFF is also all orange if you look through the right filter.”

As an individual interacting with reality, I find myself to be silly and find silliness in my surroundings. However, I tend to take my speculative fiction VERY serious. There’s something powerful about dealing with unconstrained ideas.

Reality is a spectrum of silliness from cute kittens to health-care debates. It’s also possible I’m just being contrary, so as to inject just a bit more silliness into this discussion.

]]> By: Topher Knowles http://www.orbitbooks.net/2009/10/05/silly-fantasies/comment-page-1/#comment-1249 Topher Knowles Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:29:05 +0000 http://www.orbitbooks.net/?p=4410#comment-1249 I wholeheartedly agree with you, but at the same time believe that it is not enough for fantasy to simply be silly, actually on second thoughts maybe it's ok for lowest-common-denominator fantasy. Watching a werewolf fight a vampire will always appeal to my inner-child. However it is when an engaging, emotional and expertly executed storyline is attached to these silly things that they become worthwhile. Perhaps it is only when writing about the absurd that we can really detach ourselves enough from reality to create a REALLY good story. I wholeheartedly agree with you, but at the same time believe that it is not enough for fantasy to simply be silly, actually on second thoughts maybe it’s ok for lowest-common-denominator fantasy.

Watching a werewolf fight a vampire will always appeal to my inner-child.

However it is when an engaging, emotional and expertly executed storyline is attached to these silly things that they become worthwhile.

Perhaps it is only when writing about the absurd that we can really detach ourselves enough from reality to create a REALLY good story.

]]> By: Kristen Painter http://www.orbitbooks.net/2009/10/05/silly-fantasies/comment-page-1/#comment-1248 Kristen Painter Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:42:46 +0000 http://www.orbitbooks.net/?p=4410#comment-1248 Is it wrong that I wish it really would rain meatballs? Or maybe that's my diet talking. Is it wrong that I wish it really would rain meatballs? Or maybe that’s my diet talking.

]]> By: Gloria Oliver http://www.orbitbooks.net/2009/10/05/silly-fantasies/comment-page-1/#comment-1247 Gloria Oliver Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:16:02 +0000 http://www.orbitbooks.net/?p=4410#comment-1247 Long Live the Sillyness! Booyah, Brother! Long Live the Sillyness! Booyah, Brother!

]]> By: Karin http://www.orbitbooks.net/2009/10/05/silly-fantasies/comment-page-1/#comment-1246 Karin Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:28:00 +0000 http://www.orbitbooks.net/?p=4410#comment-1246 “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” --Dr. Seuss “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”

–Dr. Seuss

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