SF conventions--of another sort

[vilakins]

Someone on an SF mailing list directed me to an interesting post on james_nicoll's LJ.

If you could make one convention of modern SF go away, which one would you choose?

If you could add one, what would you add?

I commented there but I decided I'd like to know what you think. My picks are:

Get rid of the hackneyed civilisation where--gasp, how original!--women are oppressed. Even Farscape and Firefly have done it. Use some imagination already.

I want more alien aliens. How about furry aliens, or insectoid ones instead of the usual humanoids, and let's play with gender with a little more imagination. How about societies with several sexes, where you need more than two to procreate, or a hive society? Anything but clichéd old recycled human ones.

But you knew that. :-)

Comments

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

Shame on you, the computer in Independence Day was a PowerBook running Mac OS! ;) (http://www.stidy.com/MondoMac/applefilm.html)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

:-P It's been years since I saw that and I probably didn't notice at the time--but of course it was. Apple get their stuff into every TV show and film and even newspaper photo of astrogirl2 even though she does use Windows. I've often wondered how they do it but there you are, they must have alien backing.