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This post is not a response to any novel, but a response to my experience in the class.

I really enjoyed this class and being exposed to new material and interesting themes and topics in the novels and short stories we read, and movies we watched. I found myself looking up a lot of material and finishing movies we watched in class - such as KiKi's delivery service. The talks we had in class were interesting and i appreciate listening to what you and my classmates have to say. I wish i had been able to read more however, as I did not get to as much as I would have liked to. Although I feel I had been able to grasp the main concepts about then novels from our discussions in class. This is another reason why I wish I had been able to attend all classes, but unfortunately i got sick at the worst time.

EXISTENZ

This was the film we watched last class, although we did not get to finish it. I found the concept very interesting although a little weird. Some parts kind of freaked me out like how you plug the bioport into your back like that.. and some parts were oddly sexual, BUT, other than that, i thought it was a pretty well made movie.

I had never heard of this movie before, but was glad i got to see some of it. I thought the acting was really great, and the way that you could tell when they were in a game world was really compelling to watch. I liked how you had to give the correct dialect in order to move on with the game, and how certain players will go into 'waiting mode' and sort of drift off and look like a real video game when designed characters do that.

Another cool aspect was the game devices themselves, called game pods. The design was crazy and the anatomy of it was real life like. It was interesting that they chose to make it sort of look like it was a living thing. Which, to them it pretty much was. They could get diseased, etc. and need surgeries.

It fulfilled many of the science fiction fantasy genre markers.

For one, it is a virtual reality game set in the future. The fact that there was such technology and science involved showed that it was really well thought out and an intelligent movie. The fact that the game plug was inserted through the spine with this crazy gun thing, and looks like an umbilical chord, says enough. It has to have a bit of unsettling moments to make you feel like it is foreign and new, very alien like - which is also very sci fi related.