Coursera: Fantasy and Science Fiction (Summer 2012) discussion

I've enjoyed the readings but I can't figure out what to write. I feel like everything I think of is something obvious.

Anyone else having issues?

Me too. There could be many topics, but... arrg, I'll just ramble a little and hope for the best :-s

Xiri wrote: "Me too. There could be many topics, but... arrg, I'll just ramble a little and hope for the best :-s"

haha you and me both! :)

I found this one easier BUT I have to say it's the first one I've submitted that I've thought "that is absolute bull". But literary bull, iyswim - making a case for something that almost certainly wasn't there when Wells wrote it but that I see as a modern reader. It'll either get panned or a 6. :D

I did want to compare Country of the Blind vs Invisible Man on the idea of how difficult it is to convince people of something which is so far out of their experience that they can't even imagine it...just couldn't even begin to get that into the word count.

I wonder if anyone might write about comparison of say Moreau's story and that of "Lord of the Flies" - both are alike, to me. Or Asimov's "I, Robot"...

@Caroline I did compare The Invisible Man to The Country of the Blind, and I did have a lot more to say than the word count allowed. But I ended up doing it on how in order to fit into to their respective societies they would be required to give up their special abilities.

I don't expect great things from this essay. :)

I came at it through the unreliable narrator aspect, but still wasnt done til the last second....