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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and it is interesting how Baxter in The Time Ships tried to change that nihilistic bleakness any way he could.
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And yet his own Xeelee works echo that bleakness.
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It was one of the first novels to think about thermodynamics and what we now think of as entropy.
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