Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Blade Runner: No Geek Flick?

Blade Runner: No Geek Flick?

Blade Runner, Good Science Fiction, and the importance of being a nerd about genres. (Talk at Geek Flicks, March 2012)

Wolfgang Wopperer-Beholz

March 22, 2012
Tweet

Transcript

  1. A typology of SF Type A: Naïve SF (Space Operas)

    Type B: Geek SF (Thick Texts) Type C: Good SF (Genre Busters)
  2. „Good SF tells a reader something he does not know

    about a possible world.“ Philip K. Dick