Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoScifi was created by neurodivergents and co-opted by normies.message-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareScifi was created by neurodivergents and co-opted by normies.Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-squareSpiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoI don’t refer to mary shelly. I do not distinguish her as the “inventor” of science fiction either. Rendering strange ideas in terms of esoteric disciplines for the metaphorical augmentation or whatever is as old as humanity.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoOkay. So what’s the first work of science fiction to you?
minus-squareSpiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIt’s something I haven’t delved into enough to arrive at a definitive conclusion, actually. The subject delivers little thrill for me.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThen I suggest you accept the common interpretation that “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus”, is at least the first modern work of sci-fi.
minus-squareSpiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI can tell this means a lot to you. I prefer science fiction tho.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoFair enough as a term, but it was one of my minors in college. Authors use both.
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoIn what way does taste determine the genre of a work of fiction?
I don’t refer to mary shelly. I do not distinguish her as the “inventor” of science fiction either. Rendering strange ideas in terms of esoteric disciplines for the metaphorical augmentation or whatever is as old as humanity.
Okay. So what’s the first work of science fiction to you?
It’s something I haven’t delved into enough to arrive at a definitive conclusion, actually. The subject delivers little thrill for me.
Then I suggest you accept the common interpretation that “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus”, is at least the first modern work of sci-fi.
I can tell this means a lot to you. I prefer science fiction tho.
Fair enough as a term, but it was one of my minors in college. Authors use both.
In what way does taste determine the genre of a work of fiction?