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.
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.
What scifi movies/books do you like, then? Because I would say most great scifi is political.
Books : I like the works of Greg Egan (early stuff), Sam Hughes (pretty much everything), Iain Banks
Movies : Primer, Immortal (2004), 5 Million Years to Earth
Then your experience is narrow.