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> but he falls way short on characters, dialogue and plot. Like most sci-fi writers, to be honest.
by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
> but he falls way short on characters, dialogue and plot.
Like most sci-fi writers, to be honest.
- BerislavLopac 5y agoUrsula LeGuin being one notable exception.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoSince you bring up LeGuin here I guess I will respond to the canard that Dick does not do characters well, in 'Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown' LeGuin argued that Dick had one of the only interesting characters in all of Science Fiction, that being Nobusuke Tagomi from The Man in The High Castle, the other being D-503 from Zamyatin's We (IIRC) of course it has been nearly 4 decades since I read the essay, and I have a hard time finding an ebook version of The Language Of The Night (which is where I encountered the essay) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Night that I can pay for. on edit: grammar, moving text
- CRConrad 5y agoBeen at least four decades (four and a half?) since I read We, but I can't recall a single character from it that had more life than a cardboard cut-out. (A bit like Brave New World in that respect.)