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 @chaosprime @okayultra
The enlightenment happens and suddenly the future is not pre-scripted by god, but created by human agency.
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Replying to @ColumPaget @okayultra
which works a lot of changes in the mass market for stories, sure, but it's worth mentioning that the enlightenment was an effort to open up ideas that had previously been husbanded by an elite to the masses
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Replying to @chaosprime @okayultra
b4 the enlightement, IMHARVO, there is no real future, only revelation, which was god-made & written. The future is man-made & unwritten.
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holy shit i can't even google for that one. In My Holy And Revealed Valid Opinion?
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Replying to @chaosprime @okayultra
In My Humble and Rarely Voiced Opinion
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