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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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
@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"Show this thread -
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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is this a trees vs rivets kind of thing?
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