QOTD

[rowyn]

"In the future, everyone is good in bed."

From The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés. (Thanks, makovette!)

Comments

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

[Madeline Kahn voice:]

"And it's twoo! It's twoo!" :)

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Bwahah!

I love that flick! Thanks for the giggle :)

CYa!
Mako

[level-head.livejournal.com]

"The Crown has made it clear
The plots and scenes have retreads
Up to here."

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[rowyn]

What, was Madeline Kahn in "Camelot", too? :)

[level-head.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting post; one worth bookmarking for later thought-provoking exercises.

And I was triggered by the cadence of PostVixen's proclamation. ];-)

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[rowyn]

Wouldn't that be a cliché about the past? >:>

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Ouch, ouch, ouch.

Don't make me laugh so hard! I'm still recovering!

*grin*

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

I can only hope *snerk*

[rowyn]

On reflection, I'm not sure this is really an SF cliché. Isn't it more like "In fiction, everyone is good in bed"? :)

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

I don't know about anyone else.... but it's certainly been a fiction in my life ... *snicker*

Not if your Piers Anthony

[garyamort.livejournal.com]

If your Piers Anthony, the Protaganist(I love that word) and all the females he engages with are good in bed. All the other males tend to not be - but the women stay with them for other reasons, while sleeping with the hero on the side.

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Just doing my best to keep my end of the deal up you know ;-)

CYa!
Mako

Deal?

[rowyn]

What deal? :)

*hug*

Believe it!

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Hey, I keep insisting that the future will be a brighter place!

Re: Believe it!

[rowyn]

Woo!

But, uh, just the same, I don't think this particular bright theme is one 21CF needs to pursue closely. :D

Re: Believe it!

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Just think of it as background information. It might not be critical to the way the story runs, or even deserve mention.

Like Star Trek doesn't explain how a phaser works, I don't plan on explaining how a magneto hydro-dynamic turbine engine works, nor a fusion engine. But the technology is there all the same. ;)

Mark Stanley calls this sort of stuff "Under the hood" information. The reader doesn't need to know that there's a superconducting torus being used as a storage battery to run an electric truck. All the reader needs to see is a truck, and will presume that it runs.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

"Faster, Faster!
The lights are turning red!"

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[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

"Rollin and burnin'
Blinded by thirst.."

[dajagr.livejournal.com]

Does this imply that there's a fortune cookie out there that reads, "In the future, everyone is good"?