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Jul 8, 2010 at 6:33pm
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Genre Discussion: Bizarro
I don't think it would. The idea behind bizarro is not just that the rules are different (lots of sci-fi and fantasy have that), but that the idea of rules is different. Isaac Asimov once wrote about science fiction and said you could change any rules you liked, but than you had to stick to those new rules and live with the consequences. In bizarro, there are no consequences. If you had a world where gravity worked by pushing rather pulling, you could make it a good sci-fi story by dealing with all the implications. In bizarro, people might fall up while dogs fell down and cats undulated, but there would not be any explanation possible or necessary.

Does that make any sense?
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