@HeerJeet Largely depends on the sci-fi writer, I guess. Herbert was a journalist and a big thinker who turned to fiction in his mid-30s ...
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@HeerJeet ... whereas someone like Atwood (yes I know she hates the sci-fi label) was a literary author first, then turned ...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet ... to speculative fiction. If world-building is the essence of SF, you don't need to be a great novelist to do it, but it helps.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet (None of which is to say that Herbert is a bad novelist. I enjoy his omniscient perspective-shifting style, though others don't.) -
@kingdomofevan Fair enough. Depends on author to some degree but as I note in follow up tweet cognitive estraingment is key overlap.
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