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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The character who keeps explaining the inner details of the magic system in long exposition is basically the fantasy version of me, then?
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I still remember that old viral LJ post "If the world was science fiction" Where the wife is like "Honey did you remember to book the plane tickets?" and he's like "As you know, heavier-than-air flight was first achieved by the Wright Brothers in 1903"
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I haven't actually read any Sanderson, how in-depth does he go? I guess if you dig deeply enough into any magic or technology you reach a point where you have to go "it just works like this, OK?"
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Yeah, like, the big "explanation" in Star Trek is literally that they stuck some crystals into the engine. Swap "dilithium" out for, say, "spirit", and you're starting to trend towards fantasy town.
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I was trying to formulate a response to this that wasn't just "but a scientist somewhere performed experiments to determine how to stimulate those crystals" because the only thing you'd have to switch out is "alchemist" and we are, indeed, back in fantasy town.
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Yeah, see, i disagree with this entirely and used Sanderson coincidentally as an example before finding this tweet in the thread
Brandon Sanderson writes shitty SF with medieval flavor, not shitty fantasy.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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