LNH: Legion of Net.Heroes Vol.2 #23
Tom Russell
milos_parker at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 10 08:16:12 PST 2007
On Nov 10, 1:02 am, Martin Phipps <martinphip... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> There are two popular sci-fi settings: the future and space. Jason X
> _looks_ like a sci-fi movie but it's really about teenagers screaming
> because Jason is coming to kill them.
And the presence of androids, nanites, and the rebuilding of Jason as
a cyborg are _not_ science-fiction? ;-)
> Interesting. It makes sense too because you could never have a
> "musical novel". Really all genres should be able to translate to
> different media.
I disagree; a "first-person shooter" can never really be translated to
prose or the stage, but it's still a genre of game. Country music is
still a genre of music, but you can't really translate that to a
novel.
==Tom
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