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- From: Alan_Barclay@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan Barclay)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: New Definition of SF et al.
- Message-ID: <14855@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 08:18:00 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- CY>For example, Geoff Ryman's wonderful novella "Love Sickness," whic concerns
- a lesbian relationship between a woman and a polar bear. The speculative
- setting is not window-dressing; it's used to bring out human dimensions that
- would be difficult to evoke in the real world. But it's not "soft SF" by your
- definition, although other parts of the novel containing "Love Sickness," _The
- Child Garden_, are.
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- It seems to me that in this story "Love Sickness" the key element is the
- lesbian relationship between woman and polar bear. This is a cultural/social
- speculation and as such is Soft SF by my definition. If I've failed to include
- all nuances in my definition, I apologize.
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- Anyway, I'm tired of this subject, I've wasted god knows how many hours
- defining SF when I could be writing it.
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- Alan
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