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Sci-fi and fantasy are at odds in Split Fiction, which makes no sense (www.polygon.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I have long standing issues with fares and the narrative shortcuts and tropes he uses.

But yeah. Watched the first hour or so on a stream and it was pure nonsense. It shows a complete lack of understanding of what SFF even is (there is a reason we just call it "Science Fiction and Fantasy") but even what writing is. One character can never shut the fuck up about how "I am going to get published. Were you published. PUBLISHED" because apparently this dystopic future where machine learning steals ideas from people and combine them into the best stories ever told doesn't have ebooks.

I got on a Whitest Kids You Know kick recently and they were talking about when they jacked off one of the guys on stage in a massage parlor skit. And I think it was Trevor (RIP) who couldn't stop laughing about how they were dumbass kids who had no idea how ANYTHING worked and that was the basis for so many of their skits.

And yeah. That is definitely the rosetta stone to fares et al's writing. Whether they are talking about undercover cops or writing or what it means to be a child of divorce.

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

See, I feel like both Sci-Fi and Fantasy have enough different that the should be sperate genres. I think the combining them is to the detriment of both. I can't tell you the amount of times I've given up looking for something new to watch because I click Sci-Fi and every listing is Lord of the Rings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't a ring which has an inbuilt GPS tracker sci-fi? :p

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Which gets to the crux of it. Unless you are reading REALLY hard sci-fi, most of the tech boils down to "a wizard did it".

Like, the OT of Star Wars is 100% a fantasy series and it was only the EU (and later the PT) that tried to explain the tech and make it more sci-fi. Similarly, a lot of the litrpg writers think Sanderson is a softy and go ridiculously hard on explaining their magic systems in greater detail than actual textbooks.

And, at the end of the day, they are all just different shades of speculative fiction that primarily use magic/tech/magitech as a plot device to explore the impact on society of whatever metaphor the big bad is.

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