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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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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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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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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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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8/ "my novel is level 7 SF on the
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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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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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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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Also, it’s not about wizards. It’s a western. Set in space.
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Based on the episode of Boba Fett that launched today, Disney is 100% aware of who pays the bills.
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