I have nothing better to rant about...

Today I started flipping through Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (I'm using the book as part of a grand project of geeky and insightful school project) and stumbled upon this quote:

"Billy Pilgrim says that the universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rareified, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millipedes 'with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other' said Billy Pilgrim" (Vonnegut, 87).

Now I'm sure there are a million ways to look at this quote, or even the book. But, I'd rather not speak of the literature but rather the madman behind it. Vonnegut died almost a month ago (April 11, 2007) and with his death it seemed to me that this kind of madman style writing has died, along with any other truly great sci-fi (Although I must admit I do like the Ender series by Orson Scott Card).
Of course I know I'm probably over exaggerating so I must ask the maybe one person who comes across this post:

Did you ever read Vonnegut? Do you think the science fiction genre is dead? If not who do you think (writing right now) can bring this genre back from the dead place where I think it is?

Anyway, I guess thats all I have to say.

So it goes.

To Start

As many of you more experienced bloggers began I too have picked up this odd craze in hopes to fill a little dead time and hope that someone, anyone, would read my thoughts, my views, my poor punctuation, and my ideas. I hope that once read I might be able to stir up something, maybe a conversation. I can dream can't I?

Well as much as a dream of an audience seems so improbable I guess I can just hope that that happens and if not, well, at least I had a dream. But for those who have made it this far into my pointless addition to the blogging fad I hope that this early with nothing good to comment on, now at least, don't just turn their head away saying "he'll never make it a month." As true as it most probably is.