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Originally Posted by pwalker8
True enough, though 20,000 Leagues did have a machine that was very much like a nuclear sub in it. I read one article about SF a long time ago which basically said that in the best SF stories, the SF elements were purely secondary and could have just as easily been a western, or sailing ship story.
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I tend to disagree with that, IMO the best science fiction stories are good stories that literally could not exist
as stories, without the science fiction element.
I'll give a couple of Clarke examples.
The Nine Billion Names of God and
Childhood's End