The data the article used to support the thesis is a decrease in the use of specific words that only really apply to space opera style subgenres of sci-fi. Why would cyberpunk include “spaceship” or “planet”?
This article says more about its author’s narrow view of SF than it does about the state of SF.
Why would cyberpunk include “spaceship” or “planet?”
Almost every cyberpunk novel I have read has space travel (typically at the same level we have rn IRL and reserved for the elite), and all of them took place on a planet. So it’s weird if they didn’t have those words at least some of the time.
The data the article used to support the thesis is a decrease in the use of specific words that only really apply to space opera style subgenres of sci-fi. Why would cyberpunk include “spaceship” or “planet”?
This article says more about its author’s narrow view of SF than it does about the state of SF.
At least the author showed their work? They had a thesis, and set about finding a way to support it, careful methodology be damned.
“I tried Really Hard to find a categorization of SciFi novels, but in the end I just searched for some generic terms limited to the titles.”
I’d like the author to know that they missed Hail Mary.
Yeah, it’s really bad methodology
Almost every cyberpunk novel I have read has space travel (typically at the same level we have rn IRL and reserved for the elite), and all of them took place on a planet. So it’s weird if they didn’t have those words at least some of the time.