Booking a Minute of your Time for a Poll

[dogriver]

Okay. I scrapped my previous poll for reasons you may or may not already know. So we'll try this poll. Enjoy.

[Poll #1151847]

Comments

[pawpower4me.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to click on the link that said drink a coke because ... I'm *gasps* drinking a coke! yum-ers

[masterofmusings.livejournal.com]

And don't think I'm not proud to have you as a friend!

slightly offended

[michael-m.livejournal.com]

I am offended that yolu would consider fantisy and science fiction "writing styles." They are genres. To me, a writing style is a way of portraying a particular time period.
I suspect that for me, the statement that sci-fi and fantisy are writing styles is like saying to you, "catchup is just another condiment."

p.s. Some people, such as stephen King, should never ever write science fiction. As brilliant a writer as he is, he just doesn't have the nak for this genre. I rather enjoy when the two genres mix.
I'd love to read a book in which an author living in a magic world tries to imagine a world in which magic doesn't exist, but where the principles he dreams up, though scientifically theoretial, wind up being undoable accept through magical means (i.e. you could lift heavy objects by lessening gravity.)
Okay, maybe this wouldn't make a good book, but perhaps a short story.

Re: slightly offended

[masterofmusings.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I have to take issue with your logic here. Science fiction is a genre, absolutely, but good science fiction requires a distinct writing style of its own. consider the following brief excerpt, which I am about to make up:

Jodi lay on the anti-grav bed, her body writhing with pleasure every time the android kissed her. "Oh, XK41295B!" she moaned, "I love it when your oil can rattles!"

That could best be described in a lot of ways, none complimentary, but for our purposes I'd call that the cheesy romance genre, written in the clueless science fiction writing style. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I submit, which is real writing, is a humorous book, genre, written in a sci-fi writing style. Some of Robert Heinlein's work is in the science fiction genre, but with a humorous writing style.