Endymion_Mallorn @ Endymion_Mallorn @kbin.melroy.org

Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.

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Good question! Typically they get listed as fantasy because the magic isn't manmade. Most definitions of science fiction require a human to have created the unrealistic element - or an extraterrestrial lifeform who is roughly analogous to a person. It's not just that magic is present, but that it was derived from supernatural sources and not by human actions.

Fair enough as a term, but it was one of my minors in college. Authors use both.

Privacy nut?

Then I suggest you accept the common interpretation that "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus", is at least the first modern work of sci-fi.

Ah, you've read Heinlein and Lovecraft.

Okay. So what's the first work of science fiction to you?

Let it Be? No, no. Let it Haiku.

These are all 2024. So let's go older.

• The Rocketeer
• Galaxy Quest
• eXistenZ
• The 13th Floor
• Waking Life
• The Men Who Stare At Goats
• Birdman (Or, the unexpected virtue of innocence)
• Alien Nation
• Citizen Kane
• Dr. Strangelove (Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb)

Had me in the first half, ngl.

Uh-huh. The error was that they were caught doing it.

It will end up harmful though. Their beliefs about the "place" of women are harmful. That, and their general social isolation, are reasons why I tell people to get away from that cult and deprogram anyone they can.

Weird but also romantic. At least it was her deceased husband's heart, and not her living husband's?

That's a perspective on Mary Shelley that I hadn't considered. But she was reasonably well-adjusted and popular. And yes I do consider Frankenstein to be the first English science fiction.

Never heard of that tool. Thank you for sharing it!

They are an Evangelical cult, and unless he is going to leave the group, get your daughter away from him. Otherwise he will try to convert her and manipulate her

Personally? No. But I'm also not currently unemployed. There are others who are.

You're absolutely right. No job in the USA should ever pay less than minimum wage. Costs will increase, but so will the average prosperity. If we can manage to deflate the currency and keep more domestic products here in the country, we're all better off.

It won't save anyone any money. American labor is expensive.

Please. Let a court rule on whether a Nazi salute was made on US soil by a foreign actor in the current administration. Put it to the question. Then tell us if the court thinks that's a problem.