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Originally Posted by gmw
I've rambled long enough (at least  ). What do you think? |
I believe that imposing unnecessary boundaries on genres has very little benefit.
Now, perhaps
to you this may be useful, as you may prefer sci-fi that is more about "scientific plausibility" than about "technology as magic," and that's fine.
But stating what is "true" sci-fi or "true" fantasy just imposes artificial restrictions on what the authors "should" do. This is art and/or entertainment; and ultimately the overriding rules -- entertain and/or enlighten and/or amuse and/or provoke the audience -- are far more important than a series of unnecessary restraints on the author.
We could also get into the idea of definitions as dynamic and constantly evolving, and thus how generating static definitions is nearly impossible, but I'm not sure web forums are particularly efficient at displaying Venn diagrams, so...
