I think what's telling about genre discourse is that the Nerd Genres, fantasy and science fiction, act like the definition of a "genre" is having "rules" about what's "allowed to happen" in the setting, and nerds think all genres work this way when mostly they don't
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But really it's not a matter of the specific details but what the author is interested in Like you can tell DFW wasn't really interested in the futuristic setting for its own sake, which is why so many "flashback" scenes take place in the realistic present day
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Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections is technically science fiction, it's even about a classic science fiction idea (the corporation threatening to build a machine to edit and improve human personalities) It's just that because it's litfic the machine never ends up being built
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