Space fantasy, heroic epic, and operatic drama. It's not speculative fiction at all.
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like, if R2D2 weren't a spec el, he'd be just some kind of robot pet who fulfills his narrative functions as a familiar and that's the end of it. he's a spec el b/c, accidentally or no, the math is done on his social function and what it would imply for things like him to exist
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Hedwig (HP's owl familiar) performs useful functions for protagonist as well, in extremis on multiple occasions, right up to the noble sacrifice.
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It is exactly science fiction of the kind that Harlan Ellison used to deride, and to distinguish his own work from as “fantasy."
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