1. I'm always amazed at critics (ahem Darko Suvin cough cough) who argue science fiction is superior to fantasy. In truth, science fiction is a branch of fantasy.
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As a pubic librarian who loves reading and recommending genre, this is a fabulous thread.
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Good pun game.
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And yet so many of its writers can't imagine anything better than this world we live in--or even a world dominated by the values & economic&social relationships of particularly dumb interpretations of the hideous past...
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Then, again collapsing generic and thematic boundaries, you have detective fiction, exactly halfway between SF and "fantastika," which dramatized the fear of instability but defanged it through the magical power of intuitive, eminently rational, essentially magical supercops.
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Wouldn't you say that Fantasy tends to look backwards and Sci-Fi tends to look forwards? At least in the classic Tolkien/Asimov division of the genres.
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for many, science is just the current manifestation of fantasy, religion &magic...
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I'm trying to remember the thesis of Lukac's Theory of the Novel. IIRC, he said the bourgeois novel is all about the social change, albeit frequently about controlling & containing change and its anxieties.
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Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Hobo etc. were the last desperate attempt to conserve a culture permitting friendly free roaming dogs, friends to all, slowing traffic so human lives were saved. We now live in a world of leashed attack-dog weapons. Not fictional.
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Do Lukacs v Brecht on realism next
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I think the conservatism of nineteenth-century realism is overstated, and Marx agrees:pic.twitter.com/7B5gqqIDMF
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It's sci-fi and fantasy that are far more conservative, especially today. They obfuscate real conditions: watching or reading a dystopia is a way to convince yourself that you're not already in a dystopia.
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