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I thought that you were going to condemn the genre's ubiquitous faster-than-light communications/travel. I approach space opera as a specialized variant of high
by philipkglass 2y ago
I thought that you were going to condemn the genre's ubiquitous faster-than-light communications/travel. I approach space opera as a specialized variant of high fantasy, where the usual tropes are as genre-acceptable as wizards and ghosts.
- pfdietz 2y agoThat's an external inconsistency, but SF is typically allowed one such assumption. Ignoring the Fermi Argument is an internal inconsistency. The world just doesn't work on its own terms.