You know if Fatty was a proper sci-fi writer and did any research on how sci-fi cliches changed and developed and grew over time,he would know that back before we knew that all the clouds above Venus was acid sci-fi writers imagined the planet as being a lush rainforest. Because at the time, in the nineteen hundreds, there was a theory that the planets were formed in reverse order from their proximity to the sun — therefore, just as Mars was thought of as a much older world than Earth (and a glimpse of our possible future) Venus was believed to be a younger planet, with all the humidity and heat of our world's distant past. As we know young Earth was a temperate steaming rainforest filled with giant insects and ancient old trees and incredible life. It would be more interesting writing the colonisation of that kind of world, a global alien rainforest than dealing with an utterly lifeless featureless rock with incredible gravity and acid rain.
As a sci-fi writer if reality is ever in the way of your ideas you can just change reality to make it fit. Herbert did it with Spice to explain FTL travel in a way that glorified humanity, and human intelligence and how we can all better ourselves and how we don't need to rely on computers and technology if we don't want to. If you're also not a sci-fi writer like me, you can just do shitty 2 second research on tvtropes where I got this information from and learn all this yourself and still understand the genre better than Patrick who does it for a living, allegedly.
But alas, Pat is fat and I would not have sex with him, and Fatrick is far to busy grinding black children down to bother having even a basic understanding of science fiction as a genre and its historical development.
with your 1.2GPA?
