Friday, September 08, 2006
Soooo, first post. This is a good way to feel my way around the course material and I like that I can look back on my thoughts. I'm no stranger to blogging and this will be interesting, I think! Anyhow, I read a couple books this summer - Deception Point by Dan Brown and Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz amongst them. Don't laugh. If I remember correctly those 2 novels did sort of contain themes of spirituality & technology... or maybe they had worded it differently as religion & science. Either or. Spoilers ahead.
Anyway, the former talked about how NASA had made this enormous cover-up of a secret that would destroy the faith and beliefs of what people knew. Turns out that somebody had faked a meteorite that made it look as if humans were evolved from extraterrestrial beings (something or other) and people's beliefs were going to be rocked to their cores if they found out. The other book by Dean Koontz involved some futuristic corporation's use of manipulative technology and recruitment of children with supernatural powers (X-Men, anyone?) to sort of "play God" and abuse their powers in society. The books aren't fresh in my mind, but I thought I would talk about them to get the ball rolling on this blog. If I can pull out those books again, maybe I'll find something else interesting... for now though that'll have to wait...
Until next time,
B
Anyway, the former talked about how NASA had made this enormous cover-up of a secret that would destroy the faith and beliefs of what people knew. Turns out that somebody had faked a meteorite that made it look as if humans were evolved from extraterrestrial beings (something or other) and people's beliefs were going to be rocked to their cores if they found out. The other book by Dean Koontz involved some futuristic corporation's use of manipulative technology and recruitment of children with supernatural powers (X-Men, anyone?) to sort of "play God" and abuse their powers in society. The books aren't fresh in my mind, but I thought I would talk about them to get the ball rolling on this blog. If I can pull out those books again, maybe I'll find something else interesting... for now though that'll have to wait...
Until next time,
B
# posted by Bonnie @ York : 4:11 PM
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I would suggest reading 'real' SF authors for a more indepth feel on the complex natures and/or amalgamation of Religion/Technology.
Although not a 'Hard SF' writer you might be interested in reading 'The Hyperion' series from Dan Simmons. I thoroughly enjoyed that experience!
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Although not a 'Hard SF' writer you might be interested in reading 'The Hyperion' series from Dan Simmons. I thoroughly enjoyed that experience!
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