Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoScifi was created by neurodivergents and co-opted by normies.message-squaremessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down153
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minus-squareSpiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down14·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-up6·1 month agoOkay. So what’s the first work of science fiction to you?
minus-squareSpiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down7·1 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-up8·1 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-up2arrow-down2·edit-21 month agoI can tell this means a lot to you. I suppose it’s a matter of taste.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoFair enough as a term, but it was one of my minors in college. Authors use both.
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 days agoIn what way does taste determine the genre of a work of fiction?
minus-squareSpiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-225 days agoYou misunderstand. I offered that what “means a lot to you” is a matter of taste.
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 suppose it’s a matter of taste.
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?
You misunderstand. I offered that what “means a lot to you” is a matter of taste.