Proper sf explores the edges of reality and then goes beyond.

Popular “sf” is old tropes and popular ideas rendered in terms of spaceships and robots.

The first is a real live alien. The second is cosplay.

  • infinite_ass@leminal.spaceOP
    112·
    1 month ago

    We already agreed that it’s a big difference.

    2 completely different things that have the same name. Superficially similar but actually not.

    What’s the issue?

      • infinite_ass@leminal.spaceOP
        110·
        1 month ago

        (Semantics really is the smallest possible point.)

        I think that the real point here is legitimacy. Scifi has a big reputation. Popular scifi borrows legitimacy from that reputation.

        Separate popular scifi from that reputation and it loses legitimacy.