Thread: Is SF dying?
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Old 01-30-2015, 12:19 PM   #51
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It is my understanding that a story is SF if by removing the SF elements the story itself falls apart. For example Asimov's robot stories couldn't survive as stories without the element of positronic robots. You could move the story to the middle ages and make a group of people from another country into slave labor but without Asimov's 3 laws stories like "little lost robot" and "runaround" just wouldn't work.
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