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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Well, so long as the story is good. ^_^
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Or the effects are good.
Or the actors are popular.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Er, I wasn't aware we had codified "accepted rules of SF".  |
Isn't that what this thread is
for?
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
You can certainly postulate that all of the above are fantasy, because they aren't possible, and you may be right, but that hasn't been conclusively proven, so they are still grist for the SF mill.
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Well, maybe if all SF, hard and soft, is speculation, and even the most unlikely elements are still possible simply because they haven't been proven... what's the use of labels? It's all SF, then. Or it's all Fantasy. Or it's both at the same time. Maybe we should be calling it all Science Fantasy.
Seems like there are simply too many unknowns and variations to allow useful labels (or rules, for that matter) to exist. If
Star Wars and
Solaris can be painted with the same brush, that brush must be awful large. And very gray in color.