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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and

      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

      3 replies 3 retweets 39 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and

      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

      2 replies 2 retweets 38 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and

      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

      1 reply 2 retweets 32 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and

      "You should be calling it science FANTASY" Okay bitch then literally every single fucking thing they printed in "science fiction" magazines in the first half of the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" in the '30s was "actually science FANTASY" It all had swords and magic and shit

      3 replies 4 retweets 38 likes
    5. Christopher Keelty  🏳️‍🌈‏ @keeltyc Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and

      I used to be one of those Science Fiction vs Science Fantasy guys. Honestly it only works if your familiarity with the genre is limited. Once you take in the breadth of it, there's no clear place to draw the line, and the distinction is worthless.

      1 reply 4 retweets 22 likes
    6. Christopher Keelty  🏳️‍🌈‏ @keeltyc Apr 7
      Replying to @keeltyc @arthur_affect and

      There was a time, I think, when American media tried to draw a hard line. You'd have, like, Ben Bova and Asimov on one side, and George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry on the other. Mostly that was from about the 1970s through the 1990s, as far as I can tell.

      2 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
    7. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 7
      Replying to @keeltyc @arthur_affect and

      The issue is really about whether the writers are interested in primarily the aesthetics or primarily the legit dynamics that can’t be “ported” elsewhere, between “hard” and “soft” sf. This is a highly subjective assessment.

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
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    9. Professional problematic shipper‏ @ftmshepard Apr 7
      Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl and

      The thing is, the "hard sci-fi" of yore had telepaths! And FTL! Asimov, known for his "hard sci-fi" had a telepathic robot secretly guiding humanity. Nowadays nobody has telepaths or teleporters in their sci-fi and I think that's annoying.

      4 replies 2 retweets 9 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @ftmshepard @mssilverstein and

      George Lucas had Luke yell at C-3PO about things that he believed to be impossible in this universe ("alter time or teleport me off this rock") to establish Star Wars wouldn't have time travel or teleportation, unlike Star Trek, despite being the "softer" franchise

      4 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ftmshepard and

      Since then both concepts have technically been officially added in, although to be fair they aren't "scientific" teleportation or time travel, but happen via the Force, which was established by Yoda to be all about the supernatural and doing the seemingly impossible

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        1. Professional problematic shipper‏ @ftmshepard Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

          This is where I admit a preference for star trek more broadly and the star trek novels, given half of them are authors being given permission to go nuts and half of them are canon to each other; star trek went "yeah, sure, people gaining god like esp powers seems neat" early on!

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