Slice of Sci Fi

The Rasecon ´10 is closing in and the project is going quite well actually. I have had a quite busy spring even if we do not have so much work at the office. But that is something that has a tendency to increse the stresslevel. Anyway. The guests are ready and right now i am planning the discussions and thinking about what will become of them.

The first discussion is about reading science fiction and fantasy. Is that harder than reading regular fiction? Does science fiction demand more of it´s readers than mainstream fiction? I think so. I have a lot of friends that tells me that they can´t read something that is not true. When I ask them what they mean with that they tell me that in science fiction noting is realistic or real.

OK! Like it´s realistic and real in a Midsommer murder case or in a Patricia Cornwell novel. That is what I think is the hard part. You can´t have a hyperdrive or a spaceship that travels through a wormhole but you can have a area in England where almost everybody gets murderd. :)

The next panel is about Television and science fiction and Fantasy tv-series. What´s worth watching and what is not worth watching. I have this last time been watching a lot of TV-series for this program and that includes complete Legend of the Seeker season 1 (watching season 2 right now), V the reebot, Spartacus - Blood and Sand, Being Human, Misfits, Better of TED (thats a comedy not so much science fiction or fantasy but it do have it) and last but not least Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. So as you can see there have been a lot of crappy Tv-series this last year.

But Flashforward, V and Stargate Universe has been quite good actually.

Shall write more about them later. I bought yesterday the Adam Roberts novel Yellow Blue Tibia and that seems to be a very interesting novel. Too bad I forgot it at work today so I can get back to reading it on Friday. But that does not matter because today it´s Fifnland USA in World Championship in Icehockey. Let´s see what that becomes.