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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“Yeah, honey, I know you did your PhD in hermetic sorcery, but I really don’t need you telling me how the daemon post works.”
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“This is really interesting actually! Most people think there are only 12 schools of magic on the zodiac, but there are actually 36, though several of them are only known from a single spell …”
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What'd be even better is to do exposition by having TWO guys like this and having them argue with each other all the time "Excuse me, but the concept of a literal 'hyperspace' is a mathematical abstraction that has been taken far too literally by popularizers"
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"A ship that is undergoing superluminal translation, or, in lay terms, 'jumping to lightspeed', is not genuinely passing through a different 'space' or 'dimension' of some kind but has instead been converted from tardyonic to tachyonic particles"
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Very interesting discussion topic Arthur
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This is one of the things I really liked about Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
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