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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Is Repo Man sf?

radioactive dead aliens in the trunk stolen by nuclear lab scientist = of course!

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the thing some people have said since the 80s (or so) due to fast technological change science fiction becomes the main mode of understanding the present. which is why it becomes more and more common and less of a specialty/weird genre.

this has to do in part w/ cyberpunk and cyberpunk had to do with the change in our relation with science and technology-- the stuff is no longer big science "out there" but it's close and intimate (the contact lens and the walkman, some writer said, but i'm thinking also the personal computer, the microwave oven, etc), hence the stuff of everyday life. also, AIDS (a bio weapon?), the rise of biotechnology, the universality of plastic surgery, advances in neuroscience, etc.-- technology enters the body rather than outer space.

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anyway while writing this i remembered something from a little earlier--

the man who fell to earth

which was pretty great, and sad as fuck.