What does Brown (2001) identify as the central themes and concerns of the novel? What elements conform to the wider generic features of
SF?
According to Brown (2001), Dick wrote about big ideas in his fiction, but never lost sight of the fact that science fiction is about the effect of events on individuals. As with all great literature, The Man in the High Castle grants us an insight into the minds of real, fully-developed characters moulded by circumstance, like all great SF, it gives us a what if glimpse of another world, a reality we are invited to compare with our won.
I do agree with what Brown has stated, that it is important to allow audiences to feel how the reality of science fiction story. In my own point of view, science fiction is different to fantasy. Fantasy can be very imaginative, can be exaggerated a lot, but science fiction always have to be careful not to be too unrealistic. It is a genre related to scientific issues, which means every event happened should be reasonable, able to find out facts. However, it seems real but it also is kind of overcome a lot steps to the future.
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I didn't like SF genre and I didn't know who PKD was. But I realised PKD was a famous author in the SF field and he has a lot of SF mania fans while I was researching of SF genre. I think I was confused between SF and Fantasy, and as you said 'SF is different to fantasy', SF is reasonably realistic and it seems possible to happen in the future.
ReplyDeleteThat is a good statement 'ick wrote about big ideas in his fiction, but never lost sight of the fact that science fiction is about the effect of events on individuals.' Although he obviously loved SF, he also loved to explore character ideas and seemed to strive to make his novels as realistic as possible.
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