Anyway the attempt to build a hard barrier between "science fiction" and "horror" came from within the SF community, a lot of whom were really ideological and snobbish This was a whole theme of Joseph Campbell's deliberate push to change the genre during his career at Astounding
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Is Black Mirror not "science fiction" because it's "horror"? Like, a lot of it clearly is just "horror" but some of it is some of the most "realistic" and prescient SF anyone's seen in recent mass media
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See also; the Twilight Zone (either tv show)
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i mean, i also strongly feel the "caveman science fiction" critique because i think people are often inclined to blur together critiques of technologies with critiques of modernity generally "we have broken from the natural order!", a fundamentally conservative message
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this isn't to police the boundaries of the genre, like caveman science fiction is inarguably science fiction i just don't particularly like the message!
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