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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SF and fantasy don't even actually really work this way The distinction between these two genres is just the superficial chrome, what it looks like - "psionic powers" aren't actually less impossible than "magic" in any sense, they just look and feel different
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I almost feel like we need a word for setting genre vs. narrative genre. Like, Blade Runner is a thriller that happens to be science fiction. Lord of the Rings is adventure/war that happens to be fantasy. Dune is epic tragedy that happens to be science fiction.
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But there *are* differences and times when the material genre becomes particularly relevant; for instance, Arrival is a family drama about grief but leaving out the aliens would be a misleading description
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Most literary fiction is just in genres that aren’t marketable anymore on their own. When’s the last time you read a robinsonade?
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Not sure bc I don’t know what that is!
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A copycat of Swiss Family Robinson, an optimistic wilderness survival story
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I guess to be a true robinsonade it goes beyond mere "survival", it's an inspirational story of actually beginning to rebuild civilization
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Pretty much yeah The OG Lost in Space was heavily inspired by Swiss Family Robinson
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Yeah it’s this weird 3-jump thing where you can trace it back to Robinson Crusoe
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