Thread: Whither science fiction ?
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Old 03-18-2011, 02:02 PM   #15
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widespread cloning and a proliferation of very basic Westerns-on-different planets story lines
Can someone explain this further? Some examples of recent works that fall into this perceived stereotype would be appreciated (let's leave Firefly out of it, for now). Either I'm watching the wrong westerns... reading the wrong SF... or both, but I'm not seeing an "abundance of it" in the genre. Either that, or I consider the "Westerns-on-different planets" theme to be part of a larger trope that certainly dominates more than just the Science Fiction genre.

I think the genre is just as diverse and intriguing (if not more so) than it ever has been -- unless we're limiting the discussion to post-hegira type space saga's.
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