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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Yeah, I know... I really wasn't gonna do this...
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So the horse wasn't quite dead.
(Not a bad breakdown, that one.)
The second category in that breakdown is one that many people tend to forget and a perfect illustration that SF is *not* about the trappings or the settings but about the ideas; that you can have a story set in the mundane world about (mostly) mundane events that *still* perfectly exemplifies the core goals of the genre.
Sturgeon's THE WIDGET, THE WADGET, AND BOFF comes instantly to mind. MORE THAN HUMAN, right behind it. You don't see it often but when it is done right it tends to stay with you.
I can sign up to that breakdown.