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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He was a chauvinist who wanted to harshly sever the ties between science fiction and fantasy (no more "planetary romances" and "space operas" with space swordfights and space castles and space princesses), even though that kind of shit is how the genre started
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People internalized his baleful gatekeeping glare at any and all corny, commercialized celebration of obsolete feudal values and aesthetics in "what SHOULD be a genre about the FUTURE" that you get people straightfacedly arguing *Star Wars* isn't science fiction
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Today in JC ruins everything...
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*John Campbell, not Joseph Campbell, my apologies Two completely different people whose careers arguably were at direct odds with each other Although both annoying
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This makes more sense as I used to be a monmyth fanboy but I didn't remember him working on Astounding. But my memory's also shot to shit, so I just made the one ring joke
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