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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Like, the evidence was never very good, and most actual respectable scientists who cared about the issue were always very convinced it was bunk But you had the Men Who Stare at Goats stuff going on
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So I mean that just shows how much this basic concept of "plausibility" varies over time *Sometimes* "yesterday's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact", just as often "yesterday's science fiction is tomorrow's corny fantasy"
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It's persistence in sci fi also owes a lot to John W. Campbell's editorial power as awful believer in particular!
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