Fantastic Worlds

[marycatelli]

This new blog has a couple of essays on subgenres.

The Fear of Boundlessness: Explanation for the Mundane SF Movement
Historical Cycles and the Anachronism Argument as Applicable to Space Opera

Comments

[jryson.livejournal.com]

Which is where steampunk came from. I think.

You can leave out FTL, antigravity, and the paranormal, and still have plenty of places to set fiction -- space habitats. Each twenty-mile long cylinder offers about 400 square miles of terrain- just about right for a fairy-tale kingdom. The far-out ones will be isolated and will develop their own social norms. Racial characteristics will evolve. While they may not be bugs, they would soon meet the criteria of ST:FG: humans with funny foreheads.

[jryson.livejournal.com]

To be sure. And the second generations of habitats with very different first generations will differ from each other. Of course, They will influence each other by trading data and digital art content by transmission.