Mildly pissed after reading a story advertised as “science fiction” that literally had no fictional science premise to it. It was just a bad regular story set in the future with a couple of cosmetic props with no plot use.
This is bullshit. Don’t do this.
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Can't recall where I read it now, but in the pulp era there were claims that some "sci-fi" stories took old cowboy stories and replaced "revolvers" with "lasers".
Obviously not as easy as that but the idea was the same, props over theme.
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Yes this was the situation 1920s-mid 30s until John W. Campbell and Astounding went past that lazy pattern. This book is good on that.

