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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019

      My thoughts on SF & Fantasy: * There are dozens of genres and sub genres in a big messy Venn diagram * pulp exists * sword-and-planet-exists * Hard SF, new wave, blah blah blah all exist * and they're all good * SF and F overlap at the margins * neither is a subset of the other

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019

      2/ arguments that "X does not exist" or "X is a subset of Y" are political statements, and are about power. Any statement that X is part of Y is a power play. Taiwan is a PART of China. Asians are PART of PoC. Virginia is PART of US. Tech is PART of the humanities.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019

      3/ James C. Scott has written about local knowledge and about top-down legibility and trasparency. Local knowledge / metis is always messy, nuanced, and detailed. Top-down knowledge / techne is clean and less detailed.

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019

      4/ Metis is the knowledge of the people who live in a neighborhood, or who work in an industry. Technew is the knowledge of the people who want to RULE the neighborhood or the industry.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019

      5/ People who live in a neighborhood know the 20 different corners, and how they're each unique. People who want to rule the neighborhood assert that all of the corners are identical, all part of one neighborhood - wait, no, one TOWN.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019

      6/ A statement that every corner is the same, that every side of pig is the same, every school teacher is equally certified and qualified, etc. is a statement from a distant person who wants to move pieces around a chess board, and who doesn't want to worry that pawn a2 != d2

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019

      7/ I've "lived in" the neighborhood of science fiction since I was 7, so 42 years. I know the neighborhoods pretty well. Mead is better in sword-and-planet, drugs are better in New Wave, physics are better in Hard.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019

      8/ They're all good. But they're not all the same. And there isn't one top level category or grouping. There are two. We've known this for a century or more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction …pic.twitter.com/hKIvqYQcOE

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019

          9/ Rock on, sword-and-planet authors and fans. Rock on, pulp rev authors and fans. Rock on, hard SF authors and fans. All the genres and sub genres are good. ...but Fantasy isn't Science Fiction. Anyone who actually LIVES in this neighborhood could tell you that.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019

          10/ The top level category, if there is one, is "speculative". Almost no one uses that term, but it's there if you care to. One decent Venn diagram among many (via https://annieneugebauer.com/2014/03/24/what-is-speculative-fiction/ …). We can quibble about details, but it gestures in the right direction.pic.twitter.com/nK65LN2ufP

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019

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          11/ this is an amazing thread every single sentence in it is wrong one random example: > @robkroese and @MorlockP think space Opera and sword and planet aren't science fiction. WHAT? https://t.co/jtMm63j7wo 

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Sep 2019

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          12/ Good threadhttps://twitter.com/WoodFenton/status/1171585937958006785?s=19 …

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          Fenton Wood @WoodFenton
          Here's my dumb hot take on a dumb debate. Genres are defined by conventions. Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Science Fantasy are three distinct genres with their own distinct rules. The purpose of labeling them is to let readers know what they're buying.
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        2. Alexander "Lex" Williams‏ @squidlord 10 Sep 2019
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          Let's not go too far. There are at least three, because we must include historical fiction as separate from science fiction and fantasy because they have different sets of troops. There are probably several other top level divisions I'm not thinking of.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Sep 2019
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          well, sure, there are also mystery and horror and romance and detective and ... but we're not talking about any of those in this thread

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        1. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 10 Sep 2019
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          "Science Fiction is Fantasy" (or the reverse) is either a) an obviously incorrect statement of what is (descriptivism) or b) a patently offensive statement of what should be (prescriptivism) that actually serves as an assertion of political power.

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