http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/01/sf-reading-protocols
Jo Walton Monday January 18, 2010 12:38pm EST
Genres are usually defined by their tropes—mysteries have murders and clues, romances have two people finding each other, etc. Science fiction doesn’t work well when you define it like that, because it’s not about robots and rocketships. Samuel Delany suggested that rather than try to define science fiction it’s more interesting to describe it,
