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{{quote| '''Qui-Gon''': Let's see. Electro-axe. Energy mace. "Plasma bow"?? You just took a D&D equipment list and stuck techy words in front, right?<br />
'''GM''': Don't be stupid.<br />
'''Qui-Gon''': [[Laser Blade|Ten foot laser pole...]] <br />
''[[Darths and Droids]]'' }}
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*** In his 1976 how-to-write-SF article "Living the future: You are what you eat!", Gardner Dozois gave a good tirade that culminated with this (cue the author's [[Sarcasm Mode]]):
{{quote| "Well, after all, science fiction is pretty easy to write, isn't it? It's just a matter of using fancy names -- just change the names, apply a thin layer of technologese and jargon, right? Say 'helicar' instead of car, 'helipad' instead of driveway, 'tri-vid' instead of television, 'feelies' (or 'smellies,' or 'grabbies') instead of movies. Better still, use the word 'space' as a prefix for everything: spacesuit, spacegun, spacehelmet, spacehouse, spacedog, spacecow. ... Right? Just change the names and you can write a confession-magazine love story, a cowboy story, a gothic, or a nurse novel, and sell it as science fiction. Right?"}}
*** Which is rather like saying you can compare a story about romance to a story about in-virtro fertilization because both in fact accomplish the same objective.
** -space<ref>[[Star Wars|Hyperspace]], [[Halo|Slipspace]], [[Star Trek|Subspace]]...</ref>
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