Thursday, October 25, 2007

A sudden change of Direction

I've always insisted that science fiction is a better medium than fantasy, partly because of the Guiding Rule of science fiction, being that anything in Sci-Fi is essentially current human civilization extrapolated.

Strapping guns to robots is not sci-fi. The Three Laws is sci-fi. Flying police in jetpacks is not sci-fi. Minority Report is sci-fi.

It is telling that Orson Scott Card, one of the premier modern SF writers (Ender's Game ring a bell?) considers two of hiss favorite sci-fi films to be Being John Malkovich, and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.

A lot of sci-fi nowadays is actually fantasy. You create a setting, you stock it with characters, and you circumvent the known laws and make it do anything you want, only instead of 'magic' you call it 'technology.'

Okay I seriously was not intending for this to turn into so long a post. I honestly only brought it up so I could say 'but some fun things do come out of fantasy, i.e. Babes in Chain Mail.'








in order from least to most scantily-clad.

I however felt compelled to add this particular gem:
THE RIGHT TO ARM BEARS! "IT IS A GOOD DAY TEDDY!"

'Armed to her fangs K'Tanya the Klingon Teddy roared her defiance, "For Beartle come to ME !!"'
(includes 'beartleth')

Edit: I caved. Here is a picture of a stormtrooper.

5 comments:

Sam said...

And I shall cast a fire spell to heat up the chain mail. Bwahahahaha!

-C said...

Shouldn't it actually be casting cold spells? (miniature erections ftw)

Ganymede said...

Oooo. I heart the bear. :P

Sam said...

Unlike you, I don't want to see that stray nipple poking out the chain mail. But ah yes, whatever floats your boat. :P *casts a freezing flame*

-C said...

I'm more enamored by the Imperial insignia tattooed on her lower back.