Thread: Is SF dying?
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Old 02-04-2015, 05:18 PM   #171
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
SF has never been just about the trappings and themes (rockets, aliens, whatever)
Sure it it has. Quite often it has. Since its inception in fact. And still is. Wishing that it wasn't just about that has never made it come true. Nor will it. Nor does being "just about that" demean any authors who've written stuff that happened to transcend the trappings and themes that made it SF to begin with.

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it is about using fiction to explore ideas and concepts using a rationalist outlook.
In your (and some like-minded others) non-authoritative opinion only.

What you're describing is what you consider to be your kind of SF. And there's nothing wrong with that. It just doesn't kick anyone else's kind of SF out of the clubhouse.

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