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Camping with a bunch of people from church. It was lovely.

And it's amazing what you can get accomplished with no internet around. I brainstormed the I Am the Abyss story some more, and I think I finally have an outline I can live with. I also banged out a few hundred more words in it, and if I go at a NaNo pace for the rest of the week, I should have a serviceable first draft. Yay.

In other news, Larry Correia fisked the Guardian again, and then the author of the column he rightfully roasted doubled down on his utterly stupid "science fiction is not a genre" statement by attempting to argue on Larry's FB page, in all seriousness, that a series with spaceships, aliens, robots, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, and energy weapons is not science fiction.

Now. Say what you like about Star Wars's wacky religion and some of its sillier elements, but it is most certainly science fiction. Is it "hard" SF? Well, no. It falls under the umbrella of "space opera," which is a sub-genre of SF--and is most certainly SF. I've written both hard SF and space opera, and I'm comfortable sending both to Analog and Asimov's and other "science fiction" magazines, because SF is a broad umbrella.

Man, I hope the Guardian isn't paying this dude for the tripe he's spewing.

Date: 2014-09-02 03:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] honorh.livejournal.com
I actually think of SW as being high fantasy . . . in space! Not worth being a butt over, though. SF is totally a genre.

Date: 2014-09-02 03:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] werewolf-hacker.livejournal.com
Well, the way this guy argues, "Fantasy" isn't a genre either! The sub-genres of high fantasy, low fantasy, urban fantasy, contemporary fantasy, magical realism, and whatever other things you want to stuff under there are the genres.

And I guess "SFF" isn't a genre either!

The stupid, it burns.

Date: 2014-09-03 12:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonflymuse.livejournal.com
Science Fiction is NOT a genre??? Tell that to my favourite prof, US Naval Academy, trained PhD in Literature and 'Twin Peaks' fan Dr. Cowan that it's not a genre. He only taught a full 3rd year English course on SF and Fantasy for years and years at Dalhousie University. Man, some people are just wanting to pick a fight! I choose my icon in response to the twat-waffle.

Date: 2014-09-03 12:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] werewolf-hacker.livejournal.com
The sub-genres are the genre! Or... something.

Of course, this same guy said outright that "science fiction is a genre" just last year. So perhaps he's latched onto some avant-garde definition of "genre" that the rest of us plebes have never heard of in an attempt to make himself feel better about his education.

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