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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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect
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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That’s not quite right, is it? The genre was already well established by the time of SFR, hence the title.
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(Since the family’s surname is not Robinson. It’s a Robinsonade about a Swiss Family)
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Derived from Robinson Crusoe, right?
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Yeah fair enough, they get literally named Robinson in all the film adaptations though (and in Lost in Space)
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