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
I mean, you don't have to go that far back before the very idea that society could be radically different falls away.
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Replying to @ColumPaget @okayultra
enh, i dunno, maybe the frequency of publication goes down but i don't think the idea of extremely different social organization has ever been that far off the beaten path, competitive cult-founding kids in the middle east 2000 years ago were doing it for kicks
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Replying to @okayultra @ColumPaget
yeah? i mean, just off the top of my head we have cults that did nothing but fuck because sinning glorified divine forgiveness and cults that died out because reproduction was too much attachment to this world, seems like some variation
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there are definitely tropes that nobody rejected, i'm sure. hardly any of them didn't think that your social group should have a really important holy dude in charge of everybody...
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