I have not read this book and have no opinion about it

I have not read this book and have no opinion about it

: james_nicoll; June 29th, 2012

The teen sisters of Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian are penning their first novel together,

[...]

inspired by two of their favorite book series, Harry Potter and Hunger Games, to create a science-fiction story of their own.

And by their own, they mean

According to the report, they’re collaborating with co-writer Maya Sloan [...]

Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are

comment(s); comment here or there.

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emt_hawk

2012-06-29 03:20 pm (UTC)

So the "Harry Potter" series, and the "Hunger Games" are "Science Fiction"?

Who knew?

Oh, wait, this must be Tea-Party/Republican "Science." AKA: "Shit we made up and sold to you as facts."

--Hawk

james_nicoll

2012-06-29 03:23 pm (UTC)

Hunger Games is as much SF as Vault of Ages or Starman's Son.

derekl1963

2012-06-29 03:38 pm (UTC)

So it's welcome on the SF&F ghetto... only so long as it doesn't become popular?

icecreamempress

2012-06-29 05:54 pm (UTC)

I think all those post-apocalyptic YA things are SF rather than fantasy. There is some handwaving about what sciencey things caused the crash in Hunger Games.

The Harry Potter books, on the other hand, was clearly a brain freeze or total unfamiliarity with the works on the part of whoever wrote the press release.

icecreamempress

2012-06-29 05:55 pm (UTC)

Also the "fire cloak" and what not in Hunger Games are technology, not magic. I think it would be hard to make a case for it not being SF, even though its focus is not the science or the tech.

derekl1963

2012-06-30 07:02 am (UTC)

If the SF is worth reading, the focus shouldn't be the science or the tech.

icecreamempress

2012-07-02 04:21 am (UTC)

You don't like Al Reynolds?

Sean O'Hara

2012-06-29 06:10 pm (UTC)

No, The Forest of Hands and Teeth et seq. is pure fantasy -- doesn't matter how you explain it, a zombie apocalypse is not science fiction.

neowolf2

2012-06-29 07:58 pm (UTC)

Anything can be explained with nanotech and sufficiently vigorous motion of the hands.

icecreamempress

2012-07-02 04:21 am (UTC)

Oh, fair enough, I had forgotten the zombie ones.

tceisele

2012-06-29 03:31 pm (UTC)

"Harry Potter and the Hunger Games" would actually fit right in as a title in his series.

pperiwinkle

2012-06-29 05:09 pm (UTC)

*snort!*

doc_lemming

2012-06-29 06:43 pm (UTC)

"Harry, having discovered that he is actually immortal due to hand-waving involving Nicholas Flamel and the Philosopher's Stone in the first book, wakes from the long hibernation he inflicted on himself after Ginny's death from old age. Can he find happiness with this girl from--what do they call it? District 9 3/4? Or must he foment revolution again, discovering his fate is not to be the Jesus of the wizarding world, but rather the Wandering Jew of it.... He faces Ahasueras, now a vampire, in the thrill-soaked finale..."

livia_llewellyn

2012-06-29 03:54 pm (UTC)

Someone elsewhere on the internet said it better, but basically: this is a novel they are "writing" that is based on the movie they'd like someone to write and cast them in so they can be become stars.

viktor_haag

2012-06-29 04:00 pm (UTC)

::bing!::

We have a winner.

Nathan Helfinstine

2012-06-29 08:00 pm (UTC)

I hope the book is so good that someone does make a film out of it...starring three actresses not named Kardashian. Just for the schadenfreude.

nelc

2012-06-29 08:55 pm (UTC)

Schadenfreude is a dish best served unexpectedly. Like a custard pie.

neowolf2

2012-06-29 11:14 pm (UTC)

Well, not a custard pie.

jhetley

2012-06-29 05:38 pm (UTC)

I have not read this book and I do have an opinion on it.

Sean O'Hara

2012-06-29 06:08 pm (UTC)

So this is guaranteed crap. Like when the Pope hired a hack artist to paint his ceiling.

doc_lemming

2012-06-29 06:40 pm (UTC)

And Maya Sloan has a webpage.

The novel High Before Homeroom looks vaguely interesting. I have read all of a sentence of excerpt, but the narrator's voice sounds intriguing in that sentence. (It might all fall apart.)

On the other hand, her husband dragged her to a film by/with William Shatner and she described an event there as "nerdiculous." So, while I don't mind welcoming someone into the ghetto of SF fandom, she is not presenting herself as someone I actually want to invite. She's rather...well...presenting herself as someone who will sneer at us and regard our passions with disdain.

Hmmm. I withold judgement until I actually see the book that she writes with input from the Jenner girls, but I have no hopes.

Edited at 2012-06-29 07:38 pm (UTC)

daev

2012-06-29 10:23 pm (UTC)

"nerdlicious" not "nerdiculous".

Although if you are still bothered by the mainstream-ization of former playground insults like "nerd" and "geek," I think you are going to have a bad time. In my experience, they really have become neutral description words that everyone uses. (When I was in fourth grade, nerd/ geek/ fag/ dork/ wad/ queer/ freak/ etc. all had exactly the same meaning, whose connotations were not found in a dictionary.)

doc_lemming

2012-06-29 11:12 pm (UTC)

No, I misread it as "nerdiculous" and the real word probably changes the tone significantly.

Terms, even playground terms, can be used as part of the family even though the term is overtly offensive, or in a snide deaning way even though the term is officially neutral. In my original misreading, I sensed a demeaning tone--but since I got the word wrong, I might have gotten the tone wrong, too.

nelc

2012-06-29 09:00 pm (UTC)

I am now imaging the three sisters as latter-day Brontës. Not very realistic, I'll admit, but the image amuses me.

nelc

2012-06-29 09:00 pm (UTC)

Imagining, even.

agharta75

2012-06-30 12:21 pm (UTC)

I am now imagining the Brontës as the Kardashian sisters.

Alternate history, anyone?

anzhalyumitethe

2012-06-29 10:16 pm (UTC)

For bringing this to my attention, I wish you a copy for paid review. :P

bastets_place

2012-06-29 11:53 pm (UTC)

No, no, no. You are all missing the IMPORTANT PART.
THIS? THIS IMPLIES THAT SOME OF THEM CAN READ!

That's pretty exciting. Anything beyond that is just icing on the absolutely revolting looking, sounding, and tasting cake.

timgueguen

2012-06-30 04:52 pm (UTC)

I wonder what would be the reaction if it turned out one of the Carcrashians, as I like to think of them, is a honest to goodness science fiction fan, with an actual collection of books by people like Asimov and Clarke.

rosefox

2012-06-30 07:10 am (UTC)

According to this article, it's "the first in a possible series, which is why they aren't putting all of their ideas in one book".

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