Basically, it sounds like anyone seeking to limit the range of writing is committing a number of errors, from pop-psyching the reasons for the popularity of those things to bitching about the popularity of things they don't like.
Anyhow, what're you left with when you excise aliens and FTL drives and robots from sci-fi? Well, cyberpunk, I suppose, and if that hasn't become a gloriously tangled mess of clichés then I don't know what has. Somehow, people keep coming up with new ideas within all of these....
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Date: 2007-09-18 11:53 pm (UTC)Anyhow, what're you left with when you excise aliens and FTL drives and robots from sci-fi? Well, cyberpunk, I suppose, and if that hasn't become a gloriously tangled mess of clichés then I don't know what has. Somehow, people keep coming up with new ideas within all of these....