But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
I was a very keen reader of science fiction.
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
I still tend to read more urban fantasy and romance than science-fiction, but every once in a while, a couple of books will come along and knock my socks off.
Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author.
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.