sapphi_snake said:
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.
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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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How wouldn't The Road be considered a dystopian novel? Hell, things don't get much bleaker than that situation short of just having the entire world blow up and everyone die at the end.
