Sep. 1st, 2010

science fiction, fantasy? or thriller-horror-romance-chick-lit?

Sep. 1st, 2010 11:52 am
deborah: The management regrets that it was unable to find a Gnomic Utterance that was suitably irrelevant. (gnomic)
[livejournal.com profile] diceytillerman asks some questions about The Giver's ending and genre which very much mesh with my perpetual autumn concern these days, about definitions of science fiction and fantasy.

[livejournal.com profile] diceytillerman and I have spoken before about how my primary concern is trying to pin down generic markers despite the fact that my OTHER primary concern is my belief that it is absolutely impossible to pin down generic markers. Ultimately, I think that genre is one big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey goodness.

Ooo, I need a TARDIS. Or, I guess, a TARGIS (Tropes and Relative Genres in Space). Then I could travel around genre having adventures and writing wrongs along with my plucky companion ([livejournal.com profile] diceytillerman) and robot dog (any volunteers? I nominate [personal profile] steepholm!).

I wonder who my narrative archnemesis is?
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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.

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