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04-30-2012, 09:03 AM | #332 |
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An excerpt (slightly edited) from my JTAS Online amber zone The Alderon Diary:
Somewhere I have a list of the individual titles and a one-paragraph summary of each plot."Kevin Alderon was Arbellatra's flag captain at the end of the 2nd Frontier War and followed her to the Imperial Core where he eventually became Grand Admiral of the Fleets and 1st Space Lord. Upon Arbellatra's death in 666 he retired to Kinorb where he lived out his remaining years in obscurity. About 50 years ago he was immortalized by an author named D.T. Woodsman who wrote a semi-biographical bestseller about him and followed up with a dozen sequels (All of which have since been turned into smash holo-dramas)." Hans |
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04-30-2012, 01:14 PM | #334 |
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Does fantasy require that the audience be assumed to believe the plot impossible? For instance would Beowulf have been a thriller to the original audience and a fantasy to us? Because, if so "as long as anyone can remember" is dubious.
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I wrote that 'GHOST STORIES' have been told as long as anyone can recall. That in no way requires that the audience believe or disbelieve in ghosts. Which ghosts were you thinking of in Beowulf? |
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That opens up another question: How prevalent is the belief in ghosts in your Imperium?
IMTU, that sort of thing varies a lot by world, and often by class and culture on a given world. On some worlds belief in ghosts is common. People may also believe in angels, demons, djinn, saints, loa, and fairies. On other worlds, such beliefs might be seen as 'superstition' or simply as alien. Note that higher TL does not necessarily equate to a rigidly materialistic worldview. We've already dealt with supernatural beliefs to some extent in the Religion in Traveller Universe' thread. Psionics tends to throw a monkey wrench into vulgar materialism, being as it is a mind over matter set of phenomena that cannot really be explained by the merely physical sciences. YMMV and YTUMV Last edited by combatmedic; 05-02-2012 at 03:56 AM. |
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One thing it does cause complications for are practitioners of folk magic. Every society has fortune tellers and similar professional folk magic pactitioners. At least every human society. In the 3I they'd be severely persecuted by the courts. Their lives would be interesting!
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05-02-2012, 03:32 PM | #340 |
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You wrote ghost stories and fantasy stories. Beowulf is a fantasy story to us because we do not believe in monsters the way Saxons did, or we believe in different kinds of monsters. I am not clear if it is properly defined as fantasy if it was not originally intended as such.
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