psikeyhackr
Physics is Phutile, Fiziks is Fundamental
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Bradbury admitted that he was not a science fiction writer but many people insist that he was.It's always bothered me a bit that Bradbury gets lumped in with SF "greats". The Martian Chronicles is more like fantasy, and Fahrenheit is only sci-fi in the same way Orwell's 1984 is - it's dystopian. Sure, some of Bradbury's short fiction treads that ground, but more often than not it's just fantastical. Nothing warranting the titles he gets IMO.
The term "speculative fiction" as it is used today is worthless in my opinion. The way Heinlein defined it is meaningful.
Since Star Wars and cheap computers making word processing easy lots of people consider SF to be an easy way to try to make a buck. Lots of readers are not sufficiently discriminating.
In the 90s William Gibson called SF the Golden Ghetto.