Revolution of the Science Fiction Authors

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 22, 2011 @08:12AM from the armed-with-imaginary-death-rays dept.

An anonymous reader writes "85 science fiction authors including Iain M Banks, Larry Niven, Stephen Hunt, Greg Bear and Michael Moorcock have written an open letter of protest to the BBC complaining of disrespect towards the genre, when, during an entire day of coverage of fiction by the BBC, not a single SF, fantasy or horror book was looked at. Here's the original article that sparked the open letter, along with updates. The British prime minister, David Cameron, when asked to comment, said that he doesn't have a favorite genre, so I guess he's not taking Greg Bear books to bed either!"

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Don't Worry by rlp · 2011-04-22 08:20 · Score: 5, Funny

The BBC can just fire up the TARDIS and go back an fix the problem.

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Re:TV Doesn't Grok Sci-Fi by spun · 2011-04-22 08:41 · Score: 3, Funny

I believe "SyFy is pronounced "Shoot Yourself in the Fucking eYes so you don't have to witness this crap."

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Re:To mainstream lit, sci fi is like comic books by FranckMartin · 2011-04-22 09:08 · Score: 4, Funny

And they were able to make us love the world of Star Trek: A militarist state where money does not exist, but all is planned for the benefit of the people.

Also known as USSR.

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