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  • Rules for scifi today

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 16 03:54:50 2022
    1. Bad guys must dress in black and look like Nazis.
    2. Planets must usually look like Afghan s----holes. Dry and dusty.
    3 There must be a least one example of mind control or psychic ability.
    4. Foreign (not alien, foreign) women must be top commanders, but mostly out of sight.
    5. Anachronistic technology and dialog must be present.

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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to RichA on Sat Apr 16 12:48:57 2022
    On 2022-04-16 06:54, RichA wrote:
    1. Bad guys must dress in black and look like Nazis.
    2. Planets must usually look like Afghan s----holes. Dry and dusty.
    3 There must be a least one example of mind control or psychic ability.
    4. Foreign (not alien, foreign) women must be top commanders, but mostly out of sight.
    5. Anachronistic technology and dialog must be present.

    You're confusing scifi with space/super-hero opera.

    --
    "Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses -
    half the cabinet are not asses."
    -Benjamin Disraeli

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to Alan Browne on Sun Apr 17 16:33:22 2022
    On Saturday, 16 April 2022 at 12:49:02 UTC-4, Alan Browne wrote:
    On 2022-04-16 06:54, RichA wrote:
    1. Bad guys must dress in black and look like Nazis.
    2. Planets must usually look like Afghan s----holes. Dry and dusty.
    3 There must be a least one example of mind control or psychic ability.
    4. Foreign (not alien, foreign) women must be top commanders, but mostly out of sight.
    5. Anachronistic technology and dialog must be present.
    You're confusing scifi with space/super-hero opera.


    Real scifi (in literature actually) died around 1989.

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