Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

[Darth Wagtaros]

I wanna see one about George washington's Continental Army being infected with lycanthropy and spreading the disease world wide, eventually leading to a show down in Mecca with an aged Oliver Twist's freedom fighters.

[Josquius]

Honestly, it's hard enough coming up with a storyline that's somewhat original, a writer can hardly be expected to come up with a unique *type* of story.

They can but its hard.
And then harder again for said new type of story to be accepted and published.

The 20th century being full of new genres....maybe its a case of everything has already been invented?- not literally of course but to quite a degree.

[Ed Anger]

What I hope hope happens to purchasers of this drek.

[Neil]

I don't know about that.  The 20th century was full of new genres.

Depending on what you call a genre, I suppose you are correct.  Let me change that to "decade or so" then. 

I can accept that.

I would consider sci-fi, space opera, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, super-hero and high fantasy to be fiction genres spawned out of the 20th century, although I suppose one could group them all under an 'adventure' genre.

[The Minsky Moment]

I would consider sci-fi, space opera, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, super-hero and high fantasy to be fiction genres spawned out of the 20th century, although I suppose one could group them all under an 'adventure' genre.

Most of those genres can be found in the Odyssey.  In truth, there haven't been any new genres in a few thousand years.

[The Brain]

I would consider sci-fi, space opera, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, super-hero and high fantasy to be fiction genres spawned out of the 20th century, although I suppose one could group them all under an 'adventure' genre.

Most of those genres can be found in the Odyssey.  In truth, there haven't been any new genres in a few thousand years.

Found!?

[grumbler]

I would consider sci-fi, space opera, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, super-hero and high fantasy to be fiction genres spawned out of the 20th century, although I suppose one could group them all under an 'adventure' genre.

I was thinking just fantasy (SF existed in the 19th C) , but after reflection concluded you were right.  Cyberpunk, e.g., really was a genre, not a sub-genre.

[frunk]

Now I want to see the Odyssey redone as Cyberpunk.

[Malthus]

Now I want to see the Odyssey redone as Cyberpunk.

What is odd is how little you'd have to change. Aside from adding computers, that is.

Thing is, the ancient Greeks had those, too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism



[Yes I know it is not the of the same era as the late Mycenaen. So sue me.] 

[Razgovory]

Well Snow Crash had Sumerian programmers in it.

[garbon]

Well Snow Crash had Sumerian programmers in it.

Don't lie.

[Savonarola]

Now I want to see the Odyssey redone as Cyberpunk.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of Doritos on which a slender programming manual and a list of passwords lay crossed. A yellow bathrobe, unfasted, was was sustained gently behind him on the stale morning air. He held his hand aloft to the color of a television tuned to a dead channel sky and intoned:

—Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,.

Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:

—Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful cyborg!

[Neil]

I would consider sci-fi, space opera, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, super-hero and high fantasy to be fiction genres spawned out of the 20th century, although I suppose one could group them all under an 'adventure' genre.

Most of those genres can be found in the Odyssey.  In truth, there haven't been any new genres in a few thousand years.

I must have missed the part where Odysseus battled the Cyberspace Klingons.

[dps]

Tim Burton hasn't made a good movie!

FYP 

[Neil]

Tim Burton hasn't made a good movie!

FYP

Fuck you.  Batman ruled.