Calling sf types

[pozorvlak]

steerpikelet can use your help! She's writing her special topic paper on the internet and the like in fiction (and especially science fiction, AFAICT), and needs booklisting. She describes it thusly: Under the general bracket of 'fiction in English,' I'm doing an extended essay all about how 20th/21st century literature uses t'internet as a narrative hook, and

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[susannahf]

Or maybe you were too lax in your definition of "intelligent" ;)

[pozorvlak]

Nah, I went to school with some pretty bright people. There were sf readers there, but we were an embattled minority.

[liminereid]

I think the problem is that SF gets lumped in with fantasy and that, though they can be good, when they are bad, they are so mindnumbling derivative, unimaginative badly written drivel that the good bits get tainted with the reputation.

[pozorvlak]

I invoke Sturgeon's Law.

[pozorvlak]

I dunno, the second half of the story sounds interesting... and far more satisfying than the magical-realist "it just happened because I wanted snow, OK?" approach.

Have you read the Shrove Tuesday (Observed) piece If All Stories Were Written Like Science Fiction Stories?