kinda why i regard most classic SF as cultural masturbation, stroking your worldview by projecting it into the far future where it still holds, revealing what you knew all along, that it is fundamental truthhttps://twitter.com/MothRecess/status/921229629326729216 …
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Replying to @okayultra @chaosprime
before we can have a row over this someone's gonna have to define the terms 'SF' and 'classic' at least.
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Replying to @ColumPaget @okayultra
there's kind of a lot of self-stuffed straw men to point to, hypercompetent women with ray guns who live on rocket ships & turn into fawning simpletons who end every sentence with "darling" when a man pays attention to them because the author thinks that is the Nature of Woman
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Replying to @chaosprime @okayultra
Sturgeon's law applies. There's still good stuff from the past though, and not much in the present gets my attention, but then I'm biased.
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Replying to @ColumPaget @okayultra
oh sure, i didn't say that just because it's jerking me off means i don't *like* it
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just unlike the people who think Baen Books is a political party i know the difference between being jerked off and having thought provoked
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Replying to @chaosprime @okayultra
yeah, but you can't have your thought provoked about everything at the same time. Back in the 'classic' age (whenever that was)...
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