A believer in socialism, anti-Semitism, and eugenics, he also led a sex life that was, well, complicated. Returning to Wells, you do have to overlook his personal life and philosophy as you read his books. Boyett, this dichotomy between scientific exactitude and telling a good story with a smattering of sciency stuff persists today in the arguments between hard and soft science fiction. Further, you knew your gunpowder cannons couldn’t really launch men to the moon when you wrote From the Earth to the Moon, so you’re not a paragon of accuracy, yourself.”Īs discussed by Steven R. If a scientist does invent an anti-gravity mechanism, your criticism will look antiquated. Wells find his cavorite? Let him show it to me!”ĭespite my preference for Verne’s stories, I have to say, “Lighten up, Jules. Verne strove for scientific plausibility and accuracy, but Wells concentrated on telling a good story and gave only a passing nod to the science.Īfter Verne read The First Men in the Moon, which includes an anti-gravity substance named cavorite, he wrote, “I sent my characters to the moon with gunpowder, a thing one may see every day. The two authors approached their writing differently, too. WellsĪs readers of my blog know, my main author-crush is with Jules Verne, but Wells gave us several archetypal story themes and ideas that Verne did not explore. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, and The Sea Lady. The novels of his I’ve read include The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Although he died in 1946, his works live on and inspire us today. Wells was born September 21, 1866, 150 years ago. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Turkey Contest Contest, Conventions, Science Fiction Poseidon’s Scribe Bulwer-Lytton Contest, Chessiecon, Flickin' Chicken, H.G. Thphthph.”īesides, you doubters, who’s got a firm grasp of his Flickin’ Chicken now? I’ll tell you who, it’s. To all those who said, “Steve, don’t enter that bad-writing contest you’re not immature or unskilled enough,” I say, “nyah, nyah, nyah-nyah, nyah. It is my high dishonor to accept this “award.” I’d like to take this opportunity to blame all the people who helped me along the way, including my parents, my teachers, and H.G.
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On the package it says it’s “The Go Anywhere Game,” which is handy, because I won’t need a passport anymore. Yay! Flickin’ Chicken, the Go Anywhere Game My wife says I might be mentally old enough to play it next year. You guessed correctly it’s the Flickin’ Chicken game, rated for ages six and above. Pictured below is the prize I won for getting second worst place. Good thing for humanity that nobody wrote that book.
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I guess you’d have to call that novel Whore of the Worlds, or something. Yet across the gulf of space, inter-sexuals fast and cool and un-prophylactic regarded this earth with lascivious eyes, and Roly and Shirley spewed from their glands against us.”
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“No one would have conceived in the last months of 2018 that this world was being debauched obscenely by protuberances straighter than man’s, as thoroughly as a man with a proctoscope might sodomize the prurient lechers in a tub of water. This entry is suggestive, racy, and risqué, but not necessarily in that order. As I was leaving the con, one of the Turkey Award judges told me I’d won second worst place! I couldn’t believe it.īefore I unveil my entry, please have all children at least exit the room, or preferably, the solar system. I submitted an entry this year for the first time. The idea is to write the “worst possible opening to the worst possible SF/F novel (n)ever written.” It’s a SciFi version of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest.
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Every year, the science fiction conference Chessiecon offers an award, called the Chessiecon Turkey Award.