Conversation

This debate has actual interesting content if you ignore the culture war stakes. With both Foundation and Rings of Power, I don’t even notice the DEIfication (🤣). But Bridgerton made me go “hell no.” Hamilton was better but still too much for me. Why?
9
78
SFF has enough distance from historical inspirations to recode Victorian England imo just doesn’t. Hamilton… he might personally have a legacy a diverse future might want to claim as part of its own prehistory but it feels forced
4
26
Replying to
My wife tells me Bridgerton is set in an alternate timeline where Mad King George, pre-dementia, kicks off DEI a lot earlier than happened in our history; ie it technically is SF.
1
Replying to
It’s also a Regency romance novel, so yes: uninspired wishful counterfactualism is a load-bearing part of the genre. Yeah, it isn’t a space opera, but speculative fiction like Man in the High Castle isn’t either.
3