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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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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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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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/jtMm63j7woThis Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
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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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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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"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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