Re:Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera (2016)
by mcphage on Sunday September 05, 2021 @09:33PM
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Some of these are deliberate artistic choices, but often they’re just included without even being thought about. That seems to be the value in a list like this: even if you pick the same thing as almost everyone else, at least you’re aware of it enough for it to be even a choice.
> Common blunders
> many SF authors suffer from Dunning-Kruger syndrome
Referring to deliberate artistic choices as "mistakes" or "blunders" is in extremely poor taste. It's equivalent to attacking a stick figure comic for not adhering to rigorous details of human anatomy, and it makes me want to avoid any of Stross's work in the future.