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DATE: September 03, 2025 at 03:09AM
SOURCE: MILIARY PSYCHOLOGY JOURNAL: APA DIVISION 19

TITLE: Military Psychology Reviewer Awards 2025

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Volume 37, Issue 5, null 2025, Page I-I.

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Science fiction edge cases

I do enjoy questions of what is and isn’t science fiction. Regular readers will know I end up both vague and expansive about what gets included but that approach runs the danger of the genre just becoming everything. Tighter definitions have merit because the edge cases they run up against can help us think creatively about stories. It can be fruitful for an author to write a story that TECHNICALLY is science fiction but which doesn’t feel like science fiction and conversely, a story that is not science fiction but which has the all the trappings of science fiction.

I was thinking about the question and rather than offering yet another way of defining science fiction, I thought I’d make a big list of stuff. The idea of the list is a way of looking at any attempt to define science fiction and in each example consider whether the example is or is not science fiction under the definition. I say “is or is not” but the answer may be more complex than that e.g. the answer might be “it is fantasy” or “it was science fiction when it was written but not any more” or “this contains some science fiction elements but is mainly something else” or “this was made to please science fiction fans but isn’t science fiction”.

The list isn’t meant to be exhaustive or exhausting i.e. there are many other examples that could be included and I’m also not saying that you can’t have opinion on what is or isn’t science fiction without being familiar with all of these works. This isn’t a reading list (unless you are bored and want to use it that way). It’s just a list of interesting things that might have a claim to be science fiction that help me think about the genre.

Some of the things I want to consider:

• Does the medium matter? (TV, short story etc)
• Does author intent matter? e.g. if an author says a work is not science fiction or if an author says a work is Fantasy
• What are the borders (if any) between science fiction and fantasy?
• Does the audience matter (eg things made for science fiction fans) and how much?
• Does the publisher or editor matter?
• Does the answer change if we use the term “speculative fiction”? i.e. is that term just a simile or does it shift the meaning
• What are the borders between horror, science fiction and fantasy?

The list is in no particular order.

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
• The 1931 film Frankenstein by James Whale
• The short story The Sand Man by E.T.A. Hoffman
• The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
• The 2012 film John Carter
• The 2016 film Hidden Figures
• The book The Fifth Season by N.K.Jemisin
• The book Starter Villain by John Scalzi
• The 1929 film Woman in the Moon by Fritz Lang en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_in…
• The May 1924 article by Hugo Gernsback “Radio Police Automaton” (or any other equivalent news article by Gernsback speculating on future inventions) camestrosfelapton.wordpress.co…
• Arthur C. Clarke’s 1945 article “Extra-Terrestrial Relays – Can Rocket Stations Give World-wide Radio Coverage?” in Wireless World. Vol. 51 clarkeinstitute.org/wp-content…
• The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
• The Otherland series by Tad Williams
• In general the subgenre of LitRPG novels
• The Warhammer 40,000 table top game
• The 1997 film Event Horizon
• The news coverage of the Appollo 11 moon landings
• The book and movie The Martian by Andy Weir
• Dune (book or movie adaptations)
• Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope
• The 1984 philosophy book Reasons and Person by Derek Parfit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasons_…
• Alan Turing’s paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence aka The Imitation Game en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computin…
• Season 1 Episode 11 of the show Leverage imdb.com/title/tt1300991/?ref_…
• In the Late Cretaceous by Connie Willis
• If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky
• The He-Man cartoon series
• The James Bond film Moonraker
• The Illiad by Homer
• A True Story by Lucian of Samosata en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian#A…
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• The Peter Davison era Doctor Who story Black Orchid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Or…
• The video game Chrono Trigger
• The Bridge by Iain Banks
• Inversions by Iain M. Banks

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Judge Mehta's decision in the Google antitrust case is so bad I think he should be prevented from working in the law in any capacity. He just threw off his clear responsibilities and let an illegal monopoly maintain its illegal monopoly and continue harming everyone, based on "reasoning" that a child could debunk. It's embarrassing, it's cowardly, it's self-contradictory, it's lawless, it violates precedent, and it will harm countless people and businesses in the tech sector. A staggering achievement really. It even violates Supreme Court precedent, which dictates that judges must apply remedies that end illegal monopolies (and, I believe, confiscate the illegal gains, though I am less clear on whether that's Supreme Court precedent).

Here's an except from a post on Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter, which is very good on the subject of antitrust:

The last meaningful reference point for an antitrust remedy is the Microsoft case. In that one, the break-up was overturned, and a weak interoperability mandate was imposed. But the real penalty to Microsoft was embarrassment and fear within the executive suite; no longer would the company crush its rivals, from then on, lawyers would cautiously oversee product design. That’s not ideal, Microsoft should have just been broken up and set free to compete. But a chastened leadership did have the effect of not killing the next generation of companies, who ended up creating Web 2.0. That’s deterrence, which is one goal of antitrust remedies.

This remedy, by contrast, is obviously going to fail. And the main reason is that, unlike Microsoft, Google’s leadership is utterly unchastened. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and chief legal officer Kent Walker will get bonuses for what they did. They see this conflict as one in which they fought bitterly, and kept at it, and shredded documents, and the result was… victory. They will have no compunction continuing to engage in unlawful behavior. After all, what’s the worst that could happen? Would a rival or the government really go before a weak judge who doesn’t want conflict, and convince him to act? I don’t think so. In other words, this decision isn’t just bad, it’s virtually a statement that crime pays.

(emphasis mine)

Stoller recently wrote a post titled "Why Is Google Still in One Piece? The Terminating a Monopoly Problem" with the subtitle: "Google has lost three separate antitrust cases, and more are on the way. Why does this company still exist in one piece? It shouldn't, but we're still dealing with the hangover of the 1990s."

The problems with the tech sector go all the way to the tippy top.

#Google #monopoly #IllegalMonopoly #antitrust #dev #tech #Gemini #android #Chrome