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About the Pyewiz

But getting back to the subject of this site.....
Welcome to  the amazing world of Mythology and Science Fiction Fantasy which is designed to be a resource site for  fans of all the above. Since we began this little site, we've come to notice that most of our visitors are interested mainly in mythological subjects, rather than science fiction.  According to our stats, visitors have been mostly using keywords and phrases with the word 'myth' in them, and so we shall endeavour to concentrate more on this area. The site's admin are going to sit down with some reference books and try and expand our little database of facts about this area of interest!

 

So we sincerely thank visitors for popping in, as it makes the effort of running this site worth while. We are going to create a belated comments page so that folks can tell us what we're doing right or wrong!  We also realise that the site should have more pages than it does to make it worth your visits!   

 

Actually, one idea we were thinking of exploring, was to get people to upload their own fantasy art.  Not for sale, but just for public exhibition. We shall keep you informed when we propose to launch this. We think that it would be interesting to have a gallery of mythological pieces created by our visitors. More to look at!

 

Speaking personally, we love fantasy and science fiction because it’s a welcome relief from the routine of everyday life and it presents us with a universe of possibilities.  But recently the influence of modern technology has caused the two types of fiction to meld together!

Fantasy was once a branch of literature that used magic and the supernatural as the main ingredients in its themes. At one time Fantasy was generally different from science fiction and horror, because it tended to avoid technological and macabre subjects.

Nowadays, there is a great deal of overlap between these areas, creating a new hybrid of fiction which might be called gothic science fantasy, although in essence it is still science fiction fantasy. 

About fantasy
 
By the way, would you like to know more about the Pyewiz ?

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About the Pyewiz




Definition: according to the revised edition of the Book of Hours,  The Pyewiz is,

a scoundrel, a devil, a demon, the worst possible person you could meet, a rotter, a crook, a liar, worst than Blackbeard, a trickster, a person not to be trusted, a rotten so-and-so, a manipulator, a drunkard, a no good cheating gambler, a dirty stopout, a person to be avoided, a man of extremely poor character, an advocate of corruption, a snake in the grass, unfair, someone who is ecomonical with the truth, self obsessed, a  fruit cake, a loud mouth, authoritarian, spiritually bankrupt, bossy, a sod, and last by not least

a bit of a loveable rogue,

(or so he reckons!)
  


Some odd facts about science fiction fantasy

It is a fact that  ancient Greek mythology frequently had people abducted by beings from the sky, (modern ufology is no stranger to this!). Humans were also very often endowed with the gift of being able to metamorphisize into fantastic beasts.  Aside from that, all sorts of astonishing happenings and events would take place at a drop of a hat!  And so although science fiction fantasy as a genre only appears to be a relatively recent phenomena of literature, actually, fantastical ideas were kicking around in people's minds for millennia.

But that didn't stop at least one individual trying to monopolise or even assume ownership of the 'concept'.  When Hugo Gernsback started the first science fiction magazine in 1926 (Amazing Stories), he tried to trademark the term science fiction, which would have been unfortunate for science fiction fantasy fans who might have found the genre severely compromised or straight-jacketed by guidelines imposed by the 'owners' of the trademark.

Gernsback, dubbed 'Hugo the rat,' by H.P.Lovecraft, wasn't keen on paying his magazine contributors very much mnoney for their articles.  Consequently, a number of writers were forced to write under different names so that they could have more than one story published in each issue.  One very famous sci-fi author, Ray Bradbury had as many as five different nom de plumes!

Although fans of science fiction fantasy may not be fussy what their favourite writing genre is called, nowadays the writers themselves are more particular, preferring to use the term SF, instead of Sci-fi, because it supposedly reminds people of pulp fiction, or the old B-movies like the Crash Corrigan series or the Day of the Blob etc.

As  preposterous as some science fiction fantasy was, and how unlikely the science itself sometimes was in sci-fi stories and books, a number of high powered scientists wrote for the genre including people like Wernher Von Braun, the rocket scientist who also consulted on such science fiction movies such as Conquest of Space.

Readers might get the impression that the genre was dominated by men.  Well, there was an interesting case, when a writer, James Tiptree, who wrote Houston Houston, Do You read me, in the 1960s, lived such a cloak and dagger life that he was suspected of being a spy.  It turned out that the writer was a well known feminist by the name of Alice Shelton, and she lived in secrecy to hide her true identity!

But not all science fiction fantasy or SF writers are necessarily lovers of their subject.  Ray Bradbury, for example refuses to use the computer, drive a car, or draw money from an ATM machine. Perhaps his aversion to using modern technology enables him to project his imagination into the far future!  Another example was Isaac Asimov, a considerable writer in the sci-fi field, and probably the most famous exponent of this genre, wrote much about interstellar space flight but was never tempted to board an airplane!

But what about when life imitates art, as in the case of writer Neal Stephenson's book Metaverse, a possible inspiration for Second Life and his panoptic (showing the whole at one view) Earth application, which could be Google by another name.  Or the flip phone in  Star Treck?  It seems that a notion or concept only has to make a debut in science fiction fantasy, before it finds its way into our everyday lives.

And although the idea of a machine making food for us is a little preposterous, a facility that the crew of Star Treck enjoyed, a machine that makes Pringles was partly developed by Sci-fi writer, Gene  Wolfe.  Not to be outdone, Robert Heinlein was said to have invented the first waterbed!  And Arthur C, Clarke author of 2001, a Space Odyssey, came up with the concept of the geostationary satellite.

While we are on the subject of Clarke's 2001, the novel was said to inspire the public's desire to go to the moon. Pan Am, the US airline released a list of over 50,000 names of individuals  who wanted to visit the lunar surface!  And if there was one thing that put the fear of future computer developments into perspective, it was the maverick behaviour of Hal, of the 9000 series, also in Clarke's story. 

But as annoying as today's computers can be, science fiction fantasy fans can be grateful that they are not going to try and kill you!


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