Talk:Mundane science fiction
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I added and changed a few words to emphasize the speculative nature of some of these statements.
Noclevername 03:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Manifesto
Anyone got a working like to a mirror of the original manifesto? Artw 04:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- This forum post appears to have a partial copy, but I don't actually know. --DocumentN (talk) 05:16, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Yet another non-notable neologism?
As far as I can tell, "mundane science fiction" is not a standard term but the invention of Geoff Ryman and some friends with a particular literary/philosophical/political take on SF, and it lives mainly on blogs and in a couple of interviews with Ryman. Any notability the term might possess comes from this attempt to start a movement (not unlike the promotion of cyberpunk by Bruce Sterling & company a couple decades ago). But a genre it isn't and as far as I can tell, as a movement it's stalled and all but invisible outside a small circle of enthusiasts. The "manifesto" might rate a mention somewhere, but I doubt that it's worth a whole article. RLetson 05:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
- And one could hardly claim that it was "founded" by Geoff Ryman. There has always been sf that takes place on Earth, with absolutely no space travel, or aliens, or the like. From the sound of it, a lot of hard sf and cyberpunk could fall under this definition - like Bruce Sterling or Greg Bear. Should this article be merged with Ryman's page?Pooneil 19:48, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
- Mundane SF clearly has an existance independant from Ryman, others such as Charles Stross have used the term, so I'd be against any merge Artw 21:08, 5 April 2007 (UTC).
To paraphrase, "Show me da sources." I have heard Ryman talk about the idea, and I don't doubt that it comes up in private discussions or on blogs--I used it myself, in an after-dinner conversation about the Ryman speech I heard. But that's not the same thing as being an established term in general use in commentary, reviews, criticism, journalism, and scholarship. Absent sources that show this as a living term outside a small circle, I'd say it belongs in whatever its actual context is--most likely an article on Geoff Ryman. RLetson 06:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
- See the guidelines for the upcoming "Mundane" issue of Interzone at [1]. Other references include an interview with Ryman at Locus and a review (of stuff unrelated to Ryman) at Strange Horizons. --Zeborah 10:29, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
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- No, it doesn't. It assumes that an issue of Interzone is a reliable source that is independent of the subject "Mundane science fiction". Sources do not themselves need to be notable in order to indicate that the topic in question is notable. (Interzone happens to be notable too; no, individual issues aren't notable, but individual issues of the NY Times aren't notable either -- but articles in them can still be used to show that some other topic is notable.) --Zeborah (talk) 04:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] "Central ideas" makes no positive statements
At the moment, the list of "Central ideas" is exclusively negative -- it states what this "sub genre" is not, what things found in other science fiction that it avoids using. However, nowhere in the article does it state what mundane SF is in itself, what themes or tropes it does deal with, what kinds of stories it does focus on.
Since I haven't read any mundane SF, I cannot add to the article, but this is a serious defect and a major lack in the article as it stands now.Glaurung quena 02:11, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
- I think it IS primarily a list of don'ts - thing Dogme 95 but for SF Literature. Artw 18:25, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
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- I've added in something to fix this.--Alabamaboy 17:44, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
- Good edit. Artw 17:57, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
- Yep, that's what I came in here to say, too. How is "mundane SF" SF at all? It sounds like straight fiction to me. And very pragmatic fiction at that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.118.73.116 (talk) 09:15, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- Good edit. Artw 17:57, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
- I've added in something to fix this.--Alabamaboy 17:44, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
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