Open Question Wednesday #8
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julieandrewsNot a question per se...
Invent a subgenre of science fiction or fantasy. Give it a name and include a brief description of it. Here's one to get y'all started.
Picklepunk
Any story that features pickles. They may be characters, objects, the crux of the plot, or even the setting. Most picklepunk stories are about pickled cucumbers, but other foodstuffs have appeared in picklepunk stories, such as pickled ginger, pickled eggs, etc. There is some debate in the picklepunk community whether pickling animals or humans really fits into the spirit of the genre.
Invent a subgenre of science fiction or fantasy. Give it a name and include a brief description of it. Here's one to get y'all started.
Picklepunk
Any story that features pickles. They may be characters, objects, the crux of the plot, or even the setting. Most picklepunk stories are about pickled cucumbers, but other foodstuffs have appeared in picklepunk stories, such as pickled ginger, pickled eggs, etc. There is some debate in the picklepunk community whether pickling animals or humans really fits into the spirit of the genre.
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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.
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Date: 2008-06-26 10:21 pm (UTC)I think maybe I'll write "Pickle Abode" which would be both shelter-spec-fic and picklepunk.