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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  1656 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What If We Really Are Alone in the Universe?

    Sci fi now, mostly are without aliens

For the record:

It's not that sci fi is without aliens. It's that most of sci fi these days is so absurd that you don't recognize it's sci fi.

I remember the halcyon days when Star Wars was finally ending and maybe we'd get back to serious sci fi again. And granted: that space gave us Arrival, Passengers, Interstellar, etc. But it also gave us an endless sea of fuckin' superheroes.