[QUOTE=Aakon_Keetreh;17732942]whats the matrix then? thats original. or at least the idea itself

btw im really high. **** ya[/QUOTE]

the matrix takes a lot of cues from elsewhere, both stylistically and in theme

it was not an anomaly that just appeared in 1999

[QUOTE=Meatplow;17732949]the matrix takes a lot of cues from elsewhere, both stylistically and in theme

it was not an anomaly that just appeared in 1999[/QUOTE]

but if everything is copied off of something else HOW DID STUFF APPEAR IN THE FIRST PLACE

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elim post

philip k dick wrote it

philip k dick wrote nothing but immature pathetic nonsense

huh

im going to read do androids dream etc soon

I really liked Philip K. Dick's [i]A Maze of Death[/i]

[QUOTE=illmitch;17732951]but if everything is copied off of something else HOW DID STUFF APPEAR IN THE FIRST PLACE

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natural selection

also Scanners was the work of a hack

A HACK

[QUOTE=Jaundice;17732955]philip k dick wrote nothing but immature pathetic nonsense[/QUOTE]

lol you said dick

[QUOTE=AA-12;17732959]im going to read do androids dream etc soon[/QUOTE]
its like an awkward science fiction story a twelve year old would write

hate if you want but the man pretty much invented every sci fi topic/cliche/idea/plot ever

you calling people awkward and immature is also funny let it be noted

asimov, stanislaw lem

[quote=Nepenthe;17732966]hate if you want but the man pretty much invented every sci fi topic/cliche/idea/plot ever

you calling people awkward is also funny let it be noted[/quote]

i was going to say something along these lines but jaundice is my brosef

[QUOTE=Nepenthe;17732966]hate if you want but the man pretty much invented every sci fi topic/cliche/idea/plot ever

you calling people awkward and immature is also funny let it be noted[/QUOTE]

i never once called any one awkward and immature. nice try tho.

also lets not forget the influential work of L. Ron Hubbard

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asimov isnt really as influential if you ask me. you can honestly draw parallels to a dick story from ANY sci fi work from the past 40 years.

Dick is the Kerouac of science fiction

oooh look at me i'm an amphetamine addict my mind moves too fast for me to put any thought into my fiction just hurry up and get the idea down in the sloppiest way possible and send it off to the press without revisions

i'm not going to doubt you there

all three are pretty big juggernauts the sci-fi world owes a lot to though

hpl is as far into scifi as i go

yeah fantasy is a much more intricate and exciting genre

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hey they are both wearing virtually the same hat what gives

idk if anthony is being wry and witty but i like me some fantasy

dragonlance george rr martin tolkien wheel of time and eddings yeeeeah nigga

i was being wry and witty

figured you were

all i really read nowadays is the aeneid in latin anyhow

what do you freaks know about literature

i've probably written more books than any one of you has read

and most of them were [I]complex[/I]

fantasy is one of the most cliche ridden genres ever but i'll be damned if I don't like that formula

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"No sir I do not snort cocaine from the buttocks of 8 year old ethnic boys on my boat"

[QUOTE=Jaundice;17732990]what do you freaks know about literature

i've probably written more books than any one of you has read

and most of them were [I]complex[/I][/QUOTE]

nigga i BEEN read books

you couldnt pay me any amount of money to read through an entire jaundice book

and for the record, cormac mccarthy is by and far the greatest author ever

ive read great works of fiction but generally i get more pleasure reading fantasy and lovecraft than anything else