SciFilosophy: Reflections and Homages

Well guys, (that is to say, everyone who has been reading my blog), this is going to be my last blog post. I can't say that I feel that I successfully lived up to my blog's expectations. I'm not really sure that I'm a "blogger" anyway. But I do hope that I entertained your interest and that I maybe even turned you on to PKD or science fiction in general.

If I could do my blog over again, well I think I would have two different options.

Option 1: I would cover a different science fiction/fiction novel each week

(because there's so much I didn't get to write about here, unfortunately. Kafka's Metamorphosis, Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, PKD's Exegesis, Gibson's Neuromancer, Herbert's Dune Series, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451... etc! There are so many great novels out there and I focused entirely on Do Androids... I'd say that it's almost a shame if it weren't for the fact that I enjoyed learning more about PKD in the process)

Option 2: Use this blog to write my own short science fiction stories.

I don't have much faith in my writing abilities and I believe that they could use a lot of work, but I have (and have always had) a very ~~screwball~~ creative imagination. (maybe you already knew that as in this recent post of mine) So, hey! I figure I got something going for me at least...why not give it a go? (Perhaps I should rent out a type writer in UCLA's Powell Library a la Ray Bradbury, eh? Get some creative, hipster sci-fi juices flowing?)

Fantastic. Story telling at its finest.

Now I have to say that as much as I enjoy both of these ideas, I am biased toward Option 2. And the reason for that is because even though I would have a blast exploring the ideas and characters in the books that I mentioned for Option 1, nothing I write will stimulate you as much as if you were to just read the book for your pleasure. (I'm not putting my writing down here. I'm just a big fan of those authors and the only way for you to truly enjoy their works is to just read them! Then come back and read my blog and we could even have a discussion about it, ideally!)

(Next book on my reading list!)

And in the vein of this logic, my reason for siding with Option 2 is because that writing my own sci-fi stories would hopefully allow the reader of my blog to absorb more "philosophy" and "sci-fi" themes than if I just blabbered on and on (as I'm doing now...), analyzing the works of various sci-fi authors.

Realistically, if I ever continued this blog I would hope to combine both Options 1 and 2. I feel that it would definitely be to my benefit and I hope that over winter break I'll muster up enough motivation to attempt to write something at the very least.

I would give that short sci-fi creative writing a go right now, but I am very busy this weekend with finals coming up soon, not to mention that I'm currently behind in all my classes. Which really isn't new to me at all, but I feel like I've sunken deeper into a blasé mindset than I have in the past. (Presumably this a direct symptom of my senior standing... but it could quite possibly also be attributed to a newfound apathy towards things in general. Which in that case, I may need to lay off the philosophizing for a while and return to my studies.)

Anyway I hope you'll excuse me as I believe it's time for me to fight the ever-growing, endless ~~kipple~~ work that I've succumbed to reluctantly!

Thanks for reading
-MM