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sapphi_snake on 15 September 2010
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Reasonable said:


I know.  But big names like Asimov, etc. saw it this way and I do think that it's the right (if rarely used) definition.  I tend to dislike genres in general, but if we're gonna have them I want nice clean lines where possible.

For me, if the film isn't directly examining us in a technology or real science manner with regard to ourselves or society then it's not SF.  It's borrowing trappings from SF, it's using SF as a nice setting or selling point, but it's not SF.

Rather oddly (for me) it's one rare place I do find myself taking the elitist stance that only around 10% of what's called SF really is SF.

Your opinion, but that doesn't change the fact that what you don't deem sci fi is widely considered to be a subgenre of sci fi. Heeck I for one was shocked to find out that The Road by Cormack McCarthy is widely considered to be a dystopian novel, yet that's the case I guess.



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