![]() ![]() ![]() No, the narrative must turn upon this make-believe conceit. And the Device cannot be peripheral, some incidental feature of the world. It’s a thought experiment beginning with a “what if X” or an “imagine a world in which Y.” It has something we might call a Device. Fight us.) While other works that seem far from sci-fi (the early nineteenth-century’s Frankenstein, for instance) are the genre’s very DNA.Īt its core, science fiction is a conceit. Some works that seem obviously sci-fi (like Star Wars) are really not ( Star Wars is a space western inspired by myth and samurai films, damnit. ![]() We know what it means, intuitively, but not so much definitionally. “Sci-fi” is a term that says everything and nothing simultaneously. Defining “ science fiction” (so that one can say, definitively, this book is a sci-fi book) is a little like defining “spiritual” or some other vague belief category that includes so many contradictory and peripheral and quasi-mystical tenants and offshoots that your friend who swears by it probably has no idea what it really is. ![]()
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