Deals with new paradigms for housing. Several works in this genre are classics, but the genre needs recognition as a separate subdivision within the spec-fic canon, on which new authors can build. May deal with the home itself as in the seminal Heinlein story, “—And He Built a Crooked House—” or with the impact of housing arrangements of the human condition, as in Forster's "The Machine Stops." At least two sub-sub-genres may be recognisable: The fantastic - e.g., people living in trees or tree-trunks; and the sci-fi - e.g., homes consisting of variable force-fields established in appropriate locations.
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Date: 2008-06-26 05:47 pm (UTC)Deals with new paradigms for housing. Several works in this genre are classics, but the genre needs recognition as a separate subdivision within the spec-fic canon, on which new authors can build. May deal with the home itself as in the seminal Heinlein story, “—And He Built a Crooked House—” or with the impact of housing arrangements of the human condition, as in Forster's "The Machine Stops." At least two sub-sub-genres may be recognisable: The fantastic - e.g., people living in trees or tree-trunks; and the sci-fi - e.g., homes consisting of variable force-fields established in appropriate locations.