quote:"If we'd known, we wouldn't have done it," Ari said.
"Because?" Rusty said patiently.
"We did it for the wrong reasons," Ari said. "We expected things to happen that didn't happen. Paradise, and, like, virgins." Ari looked shyly down at his decaying feet. "I'm sorry."
The president revives a bunch of bombing victims to testify that his war on terrorism is justified. Instead, they sneak the bombers into the group as well and they tell the crowd that dying hurts and that you shouldn't kill anyone. The corpses all then fall in love with beautiful inanimate objects, enjoying the little pleasures of life they no longer get to enjoy.
See, I'm all for propaganda, if you can write it well enough to make it at least palatable. This was just silly.
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My 12th grade English teacher would have refused the paper at the second sentence:
quote:The tarp had been spread over fine woolen carpet, the walls were papered in soothing monochrome linen, and the desk in front of Rusty was gleaming hardwood.
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Haven't read it yet, but propaganda in science fiction is nothing new. Anybody read Heinlein's For Us, the Living? It's interesting, and a few of his predictions about what will happen in the future are fairly close (most are way off, true). But it's definitely one of his preachiest books, and that's saying something.
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It's one thing to publish clever political science fiction propaganda; what does it say when you publish drivel?
I'll read any viewpoint as long as it's expressed intelligently-- but this. . . I felt like someone hammered my eyeballs.
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