By: jp
My only comment is that I don’t think Clarke’s Law was intended to be applied to storytelling. It’s meant to be used in the ‘real world’ where sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from...
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Even more SF versus Fantasy discussion SFSignal: World Building: Fantasy vs. Science Fiction That cross-blog/Lj discussion about the differences between SF and Fantasy that involves Chiang, Monette,...
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Boys and girls, goin to add my $0.02. But I see John Scalzi’s explanation incomplete and non-sastifying, IMO, he’s relying on the tropes used by the story {“Batteries” vs. mystical god power source)...
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FYI – legal scholars chill, Ed Meese did not say the line attributed to him by JP, but instead Justice Potter Stewart in a concurring opinion in 1964 overturning a ban on pornographic film.
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My commentary on SF vs F. They are cut from the same cloth. They are too alike to be claimed as different. That you like one or the other is nice – read what you like and feel free to judge a book by...
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And I have something to say too: You never see Ed Meese and Potter Stewart together do you? I rest my case.
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The official John C. Wright definitions are: Science Fiction is the mythology of the scientific age; fantasy is the nostalgia of the scientific age for the pre-scientific world view was have (some of...
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To me it all comes back to how you’re most able to suspend your disbelief. That’s what fiction is all about really – getting you to enjoy the story – no matter the genre or subject – through...
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