Science Fiction

I'm reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea lately, and finding it to be a very good book. I think it is well written, but obviously from a different time period. All of the people are gentlemen, and where a person is from has a lot more to do with their personality than it might it books written now. Also, the language is much more formal and oddly written, but the oddly written part is most likely more due to the author, Jules Verne, than the time period. I find that I am more interested in old science fiction than new science fiction because I am fond of the way things looked back then, as opposed to the generally shiny view of the future. Shiny is gross. Blechy. I admit that the main reason I'm reading it is because of my unhealthy obsession with things under the sea. I do not know what it is so alluring to me, other than having played Bioshock and its sequel. I think in that way, anything old fashion science fiction is much better than anything futuristic science fiction, because I am so done with 'look at that technology!' and would rather see old technology reworked and re-imagined, and also explore some interesting ideological tinkering.