rings true revenge of the salaryman vs hero's journey of the slave boy who would be king
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Not necessarily revenge though. Mostly bureaucratic heroism actually.https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/bureaucratic-heroism/ …
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No. Science Fiction extends modern society, so older stuff extends high agency to the middle class. SF from other (non-white-male) authors/eras does not.
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Most fantasy is 13th-17th century Europe with magic. There wasn't much of a middle class in that era.
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Star Wars is all of that in the same universe.
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Star Wars is fantasy
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The x-punk genres envision a high agency underclass.
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Is that because basic science has typically been state funded? If high merit, professional bureaucrats have the most believable access to tech == most believable protagonists
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I wonder if the future of good SF will be based on small teams distributed across the universe, doing cool unimaginable shit with gamma ray bursts
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True for sci fi titles: Star Trek, The Expanse, Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, Andy Weir; true for fantasy titles: Start Wars, His Dark Materials, Game of Thrones; sci fi counter examples: Altered Carbon, Dune, The Diamond Age, fantasy counter examples: ?
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