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The disappearance of sci-fi writing is yet another clear sign of technological decline. It's the final surrender of a society that has lost its collective belief in its power to build a better future. (www.datawrapper.de)
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[–] 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The data the article used to support the thesis is a decrease in the use of specific words that only really apply to space opera style subgenres of sci-fi. Why would cyberpunk include "spaceship" or "planet"?

This article says more about its author's narrow view of SF than it does about the state of SF.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    At least the author showed their work? They had a thesis, and set about finding a way to support it, careful methodology be damned.

    "I tried Really Hard to find a categorization of SciFi novels, but in the end I just searched for some generic terms limited to the titles."

    I'd like the author to know that they missed Hail Mary.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    Why would cyberpunk include "spaceship" or "planet?"

    Almost every cyberpunk novel I have read has space travel (typically at the same level we have rn IRL and reserved for the elite), and all of them took place on a planet. So it's weird if they didn't have those words at least some of the time.

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