Hear ye, hear ye, all Speculative Fictionists!
I hereby propose a new moniker to refer to something many of us do in our stories, as a convenient shorthand for discussion groups, crit groups, and general verbal shorthand.
Sports of the future, of the magical alternate reality, and any other invented sort of sport in our stories that is sufficiently different from known sports as to require an "As You Know Bob" about the rules, the specialized equipment, and anything else particular to that particular speculative sport, shall forthwith be referred to as "Calvinball" is SciFi and "Quidditch" in Fantasy!.
Thus, in your crit groups, you might overhear this sentence, "So, in your Calvinball, you have guys playing some kind of floating soccer in the lowgrav center of the generational ship..."
"So, your Quidditch has these guys facing off trying to turn each other into bats and baseballs? But who gets to do the swinging and who gets to do the pitching. Do they pitch themselves? That's not clear in the story."
why Calvin?
ReplyDeleteThe fact that you don't know disheartens me for your entire generation... So sad.
ReplyDeleteyet you still didn't explain. thanks for making me feel young and dumb. which I'm neither.
ReplyDeleteI e-mailed you instead of posting it here.
ReplyDeleteAlso, age is not a good measure of intelligence, but it is a great measure of hipness.
I am so unhip compared to you, that I think if we ever do get lunch, we'll be seated in separate sections by a waiter that won't even realize there's something wrong with that.
I just now found this reply. You kinda doomed yourself by using the word hip. However I'm in favor of using retro words so we'll go with it.
ReplyDeleteBtw. When is this hipster lunch supposed to take place? I'll make sure the waiter knows there's a super cool cat coming to join me. lol. Sorry its early. I'm being goofy.