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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 9 Sep 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted M. Thompson 🇺🇸

      3/ Pern is fantasy thohttps://twitter.com/Mr_Thomps_0/status/1171058511524061185 …

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      M. Thompson 🇺🇸 @Mr_Thomps_0
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Pern is chock-full of fantasy tropes despite being science-fiction. There’s been a lot of interplay between the two, but there are differences.
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 9 Sep 2019

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      4/ space-flavored fantasy WH came first, then WH40k ported it Elves -> Eldar, Orcs -> Orcs, Dwarves -> Squats, etc. All the flavor aside, 40k is pure fantasy. https://twitter.com/iliveonthe/status/1171064091525431302 …

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    3. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 9 Sep 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP

      Genres consist of multiple elements, including flavor. Sometimes flavor is enough to land something in a genre. +

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    4. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 9 Sep 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      Fantasy and Science Fiction have enough elements in common that they can be conveniently lumped together in a single uber-genre: "Fantasy and Science Fiction". But they have enough unique elements each that they can also be separated into "Fantasy" and "Science Fiction". +

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    5. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 9 Sep 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      Lots of creative works defy categorization into genres because they incorporate elements drawn from multiple different genres. True in music, true in fiction. Thus you get some examples of "Fantasy and Science Fiction" that could be described as either or both. +

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    6. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 9 Sep 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      When I got my Firefly DVDs signed by Adam Baldwin, I asked him what it was like to work on a science fiction show. He said "It wasn't a science fiction show, it was a western!" He's not wrong.

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    7. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 9 Sep 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      But also, he is wrong. Firefly is SF. Or a western. Or both. Or one or the other but not both. Depends on the lens you look through. +

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    8. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 9 Sep 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      Spotify has the right approach towards genres. They don't try to define genres. They *observe* genres, and *derive* genre information by discovering clusters and seeking out the genre labels that others apply to them. +

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    9. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 9 Sep 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      "Progressive Trance is the music that people are listening to when they say they're listening to Progressive Trance." "Science Fiction is what I'm pointing to when I say 'This is Science Fiction.'" +

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    10. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 9 Sep 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      For the term "Science Fiction" to have any meaning, it needs to cover the broadest swath of what large groups of people mean when they use the term (descriptivism, not prescriptivism). Which means it's necessarily imprecise, and thus not useful for fine-grained discussions. +

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 9 Sep 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie

      I agree with your overall point, but this > For the term "Science Fiction" to have any meaning, it needs to cover the broadest swath of what large groups of people mean when they use the term is logically wrong it NEED NOT cover that in order to have "any" meaning

      7:43 AM - 9 Sep 2019
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        2. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 9 Sep 2019
          Replying to @MorlockP

          Yes, I knew you'd pick up on that, but I was in a hurry and thus necessarily imprecise. DESCRIPTIVISM (which I endorse) requires such, even if logic does not.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 9 Sep 2019
          Replying to @random_eddie

          > necessarily imprecise. THE FIRE RISES

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