Yeah. What you get from movies and TV shows and comics is a lot lighter on the ideas than a book is. And SF is about the ideas. What might cheap and reliable teleportation really do to a society? What happens when the net spreads everywhere? If you can convert all the mass of a solar system into a Ringworld, should you? What's it like to live in a society where matter compilers can make anything you like, for free? What does the availability of memory erasure do to your sense of self?
You get a little of it seeping into the better visual media, including adaptations of books... but you can throw a lot more ideas out a lot more easily in a book. A good book is a high density of New Ideas.
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Date: 2005-05-26 05:50 am (UTC)You get a little of it seeping into the better visual media, including adaptations of books... but you can throw a lot more ideas out a lot more easily in a book. A good book is a high density of New Ideas.