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He's got a "LASER"!!!!

 
 
deja_vroom
12:22 / 16.08.02
I think that 15 years from now we'll be laughing tears of nostalgia at how these complex ideas and theories [i.e. chaos theory, memetics, quantic physics, informational systems etc] were simplified and bent to match whichever weird plot Grant Morrison (and many others) was writing, in a similar vein to those (now) campy comics where everybody would talk about "antimatter", "tachyons" and such...
We'll laugh and think "How naive we were, we swallowed everything they would throw at us..."
Or perhaps I'm being too cynical?
 
 
gridley
13:24 / 16.08.02
No, I think you're absolutely right. But I also think that's a big part of the charm of it. Science fiction writers should (in my opinion) be crappy scientists. Science explained correctly is pretty boring. But a little bit of real science stretched and perverted to allow fantastical things to happen is absolutely beautiful. For me, all of Grant's pseudo-science comes right back to the Niles Caulder's HYPER-HAT!!! Being groovy is more important than being right.
 
 
The Natural Way
13:27 / 16.08.02
And it's all very self-consciously pop-science these days. Morrison freely admits he uses science poetically.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
20:45 / 22.08.02
i think morrison uses the science more as a cool metaphor for his mystical / philosophical beliefs than he does try to explain articles in new scientist to comic readers. his interest in germs/cells/bacteria now, for example, is just another way for him to develop ideas about self-identity and meta-consciousness.

it's like rod serling said, you can't have a communist say something positive but someone from venus can say anything...
 
  
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