The Alias premiere is up on the newsgroup - dunno if you're familiar with that, but there is a guide at www.timdoc.com, and elz did one up, and I have a simple one around too. It's easy once you get the hang of it, although you will probably have to pay for access.
Re cultures in space - interesting. I tend to raise an eyebrow at the US flags and US governmental structures and whatever that constantly features in SF, but it doesn't bother me that much. I guess most of the mainstream SF is written by Americans, and people write both what they know, and what they are comfortable writing. I guess that just happens because in many ways I'm use to seeing the US as the (entertainment) norm, and everything else (including what I'm use to here) as different.
Also, it's ironic to think that on a theoretical level, space offers possibilities for multiple, divergent ways of life and freedoms never before seen. And yet technology is expanding so slowly, and the problems involved so great, that there's a possibility that human society may well be more homogenous than ever before (through necessity and interaction) by the time we actually get up there (if we ever do...).
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Wed, Oct. 1st, 2003 03:36 am (UTC)Re cultures in space - interesting. I tend to raise an eyebrow at the US flags and US governmental structures and whatever that constantly features in SF, but it doesn't bother me that much. I guess most of the mainstream SF is written by Americans, and people write both what they know, and what they are comfortable writing. I guess that just happens because in many ways I'm use to seeing the US as the (entertainment) norm, and everything else (including what I'm use to here) as different.
Also, it's ironic to think that on a theoretical level, space offers possibilities for multiple, divergent ways of life and freedoms never before seen. And yet technology is expanding so slowly, and the problems involved so great, that there's a possibility that human society may well be more homogenous than ever before (through necessity and interaction) by the time we actually get up there (if we ever do...).