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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 1

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Daddy Warpig

      Star Wars is SF. Mission of Gravity is SF. They are different kinds of SF. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://twitter.com/DaddyWarpig/status/1488601681348599808 …

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      Daddy Warpig @DaddyWarpig
      "Star Wars isn't Sci-Fi." In accordance with "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," I have nothing at all to say about this opinion.
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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 1

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Patrick Binder

      2/ much of science fiction isn't about science ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://twitter.com/bevoluntaryist/status/1488649480098525188 …

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      Patrick Binder @bevoluntaryist
      Replying to @MorlockP
      it is literally about wizards. it is set in space. it is not "science" just because its in space. kyber crystals are literally magic crystal. it is not science or trying to be reasonable, it is magic. It is a Fantasy set in Space. Real SciFi tries to explain their stupid ideas.
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 1

          3/ tell me about the "science" of Dune, Neuromancer, A Clockwork Orange, The Martian Chronicles, Farenheit 451, A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Man in the High Castle, The Ophiuchi Hotline, Kiteworld, Bug Jack Baron, Snowcrash, Ridley Walker, The Texts of Festival, 1984 ?

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 1

          4/ If you want hard science fiction, you know where to find it (and what to call it). You can rage rage rage that the entire world is using the wrong phrase...but I'm a descriptivist about language. "science fiction" means what people mean when they say "science fiction".

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 1

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          5/ the label "science fiction" is more about aesthetics than anything else to answer your question, we'd have to ask 100 readers and see what they say definition by enumeration sucks, but sometimes it's all we've got https://twitter.com/NoLongerBennett/status/1488653743105134596 …

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 1

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted José Camões Silva

          6/https://twitter.com/josecamoessilva/status/1488653988153085953 …

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          José Camões Silva @josecamoessilva
          Replying to @MorlockP
          I like @KarlKGallagher's scale: https://kelthavenpress.com/2021/04/26/the-mohs-scale-of-sf-hardness/ …
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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 1

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Caleb Jordan Schulz

          7/ labels should be tools to understanding, IMO "science fiction" means one thing to the broad public, but autists can quibble about the boundaries rather than debate if something is or isn't SF, I'd say "it's SF" and then dig down into subgenres >>>https://twitter.com/Based_Jedi/status/1488656695287066627 …

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          Caleb Jordan Schulz @Based_Jedi
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Yup. Am working on a sci-fi novel rn, and I guess I could drill down and eventually call it a science fantasy or something, but sci-fi is just easier.
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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 1

          8/ "my novel is level 7 SF on the @KarlKGallagher hardness scale with One Big Thing, generally off in the direction of a Niven and Pournelle procedural in style but with the political stance of mid career Heinlein, and dragging in side topics like 1/16th of a Stephenson"

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 1

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Karl K. Gallagher

          9/ 100% agreed ...and "marketing" doesn't just mean "sleazy advertising copy" ; it means communicating information to let people buy a product that will make them happy.https://twitter.com/KarlKGallagher/status/1488658322945462280 …

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          Karl K. Gallagher @KarlKGallagher
          Replying to @nattyhuns @MorlockP
          The organic tradition matters for marketing use of the label. You're telling readers what to expect. If you have the bits they want (romance: happily ever after, space opera: battling ships, hard SF: "sense of wonder" revelation, etc.) readers will be happy.
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        1. Cristiona‏ @Cristiona Feb 1
          Replying to @MorlockP

          If only there was a term for sci-fi set in space that isn't especially scientific, but is instead more about adventure and fantasy. More... operatic, if you will.

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        1.  🌼 ☀️The Last Visible Dog ☀️ 🌼‏ @ClayPuppington Feb 1
          Replying to @MorlockP

          There really isn't a whole lot of difference between The Force and Martian language/understanding of the universe used by Michael Valentine in Stranger in A Strange Land.

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        2. (((Keith)))‏ @kkaplan Feb 2
          Replying to @MorlockP

          Also, it’s not about wizards. It’s a western. Set in space.

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        3. Leo‏ @ConnerLeo Feb 2
          Replying to @kkaplan @MorlockP

          Based on the episode of Boba Fett that launched today, Disney is 100% aware of who pays the bills.

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