04-03-2022, 05:25 PM | #11 |
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Re: name that genre
Well, there are certainly elements of that.
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04-03-2022, 05:27 PM | #12 |
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Re: name that genre
Genre: SF
Sub-Genres: Alternate History, Hard SF, Near Future, Family Drama. Elevator Pitch: "Dune" meets "Dynasty", but set on a realistic near future Mars like in "The Martian." (Not entirely accurate, but good enough.) It's actually creative enough that it falls between genres, or bends them, which is even cooler. |
04-03-2022, 06:59 PM | #13 | |
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Re: name that genre
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04-03-2022, 07:06 PM | #14 |
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Re: name that genre
Maybe call it "Sci-Fi of Manners" after the Novel of Manners.
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04-03-2022, 07:39 PM | #15 |
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Re: name that genre
There are elements of that. But most of the science fiction of manners I've seen has been specifically comedy of manners, as in the Anthony Villiers novels, the Drake Maijstral novels, or The Duchess of Kneedeep (whose author was a great fan of the Villiers novels). Or, I suppose, a couple of the Vorkosigan novels, A Civil Campaign and Captain Vorpatril's Aliance. Anyway, this campaign is not meant to be a comedy, though I expect it may have some comedic aspects.
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04-04-2022, 01:01 PM | #16 | |
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That sounds a lot like a soap opera, although that has a connotation of a degree of melodrama that may not be appropriate (also, in what little I've seen of soaps, the melodrama seems so thick as to cross over into just being silly, which I suspect isn't something you want associated with this). Perhaps just call it a "social drama?" *searches thread* Yeah, looks like that's something benz72 suggested, so I'll second that - Social Drama seems like the way to go, here.
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04-04-2022, 03:04 PM | #17 | |
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But then, I don't have a good term for Bonanza and Big Valley. They're families, but single generation, comparatively limited in scope. I'd call them "Westerns" for set dressing and style, but I don't know how to split the hair with all those Westerns that focus on the lone hero. They're an ensemble cast that happens to be a family, in the same genre as The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie. Those seem to just get called "dramas" (with the fact that it's a single family being ignored). So I'm most fond of Pursuivant's "family drama". |
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04-04-2022, 04:18 PM | #18 |
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04-04-2022, 05:47 PM | #19 | |
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In the broad sense of social, you might have drama that was purely about internal psychological conflict. In a narrower sense, "social" seems to me to refer to conflict between social classes or institutions or the like, or conflict of individuals with the institutions of their society. You could then have drama based on conflict of individuals with God, or fate, or other supernatural powers (provided the human participants are emotionally involved with the powers, rather than just having them be monsters that they have to kill); or on conflict of individuals with other individuals, with neither side being a representative of a social class or institution or whatever. That's as distinguished from conflict with nature, or with technology, where the other side lacks personhood and the conflict is purely physical/intellectual: I would call that "action" rather than "drama."
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04-04-2022, 07:43 PM | #20 |
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Re: name that genre
Ah, I see. I was taking "social" to mean "inter-personal" rather than "pertaining to society as a whole." It seems to me that drama typically occurs between and among persons (or personifications), though I'll give you psychological drama as a counterexample; I agree that physical drama is better termed "action" or "action-adventure."
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