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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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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Okay but the book and movie are both hysterical
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I mean there's still *some* research going, and I'm not a Hardcore Skeptic, i just want Hard Sci Fi people to explain why it's hard.
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