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I dont really care as long SF is still big enough to have big shelf in the book store. I see my english specialist book store that even if vampire,urban,epic fantasy has made fantasy bigger the SF shelf is as big as before and they keep refiling with new books of the popular sf writers,new other sf. I don't have to order Richard Morgan type authors books,they are always refilled. As long there are enough fans to support the books in the...

Re: Is Science Fiction a form of 'Geekery.' To both J-WO and thepaladin: My remarks above were not directed at you specifically, as I realize neither of you intended to start a fight -- J-WO was simply making a somewhat tongue-in-cheek remark, and thepaladin was airing a legitimate grievance -- but rather to head off any possibility of what has been happening so often of late in the World Affairs forum. That sort of behavior has...

Re: Is Science Fiction a form of 'Geekery.' Yesssss......but if science fiction readers are geeks and Dungeon Masters are nerds, we never settled if I'm one, both, or a combination. I'm having an idenity crisis I wasn't even aware I was in danger of! "help he muttered into his beard as he swooned and fell off his desk chair....what ever shall i do????"

Re: Is Science Fiction a form of 'Geekery.' Years ago I was at an SF/Fantasy convention, and observed a group of people in Star Trek uniforms who were playing their roles a little too seriously so that it was overlapping with their actual relationships with each other. I thought, "This cannot be healthy!" (As if I had room to talk, considering my involvement in the SCA.) But then I envisioned these same people...

Re: Is Science Fiction a form of 'Geekery.' I've just pitched Shakespere against j k Rowling on Pyan's Googlefight link. The Bard of Stratford gets his *rse handed to him.

Elizabeth Haydon.... A fairly new author I've never come across before, I bought the Rhapsody trilogy earlier today out of sheer impulse, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about her if they might know something?

Re: Is Science Fiction a form of 'Geekery.' Quote: Originally Posted by Vladd67 What annoys me is how people regard you as being a geek or weird for having an interest in science fiction, yet think nothing odd in an interest bordering on the obsessive in the lives of fictitious people in soap operas, or the goings on of a group of social misfits locked in a house together, not to mention the trials and tribbleations of wannabe...

Re: Is Science Fiction a form of 'Geekery.' I think we're hitting on what is now becoming exceptable has geeky behavior, but that is hardly my definition of it. As Dustinzgirl remarked,"... and geeks like the actions of things", and I'll add, we also like the creating and building, and tweaking of things. The last time I was called a 'geek' was after a good friend asked me to make a...

Quote: Originally Posted by j. d. worthington I see a lot of misconceptions about both sub-genres here, mostly (it seems to me) based on familiarity only with the more modern (post-1980s or at earliest 1970s) examples of whichever field is on the receiving end. It has always puzzled me how someone who likes fantasy can't stand sf, and vice versa, as they really are, despite their differences, quite closely related. They are both modern...

Re: Is Science Fiction a form of 'Geekery.' Quote: Originally Posted by thepaladin Yes, Dungeon Master. I was the one who had heard of D&D and got everything and everyone together. Since then I've DMed and been a player in several different groups. Not sure I looked up Geek vs. Nerd and apparently you need to be in some form of tech. endever to be a nerd....but I can't say I'm actually any kind of authority on...