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[[Tropes Are Not Bad|Clichés are not in themselves necessarily bad]], but their overuse shows that the writer has forgotten what separates the strong tale from the hollow: "the human heart in conflict with itself," as Faulkner said. Where there is this conflict, the tale stands; where the conflict is absent, the tale falls flat, and in neither case does it matter [[Rule of Cool|how many ships get blown up]].
The sophisticated reader will note that some of these clichés are [[Omnipresent Tropes|not found solely in SF]], but in other genres as well, and of course the [[Playing
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