
538. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 (with John Joseph Adams, Rebecca Roanhorse, P. Djèlí Clark)
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast
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What Is Star Wars?
A lot of times it's like I just go with the overall feel to it to me feels like. George RR Martin has this sort of mini lecture that he gives sometimes where he says that people have all these thoughtful philosophical complicated. Theories about what makes something science fiction or fantasy but that really what it boils down to is fairly superficial aspects of the presentation. If there are robots and spaceships then it's science fiction and if there are Dragons and unicorns then it’s fantasy, which doesn't really matter for how people actually categorize things in practice.
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