𒀭𒂗𒆠 on Nostr: a huge amount of your taste in sci-fi correlates to whether you think space ships ...

a huge amount of your taste in sci-fi correlates to whether you think space ships should be clean or dirty. dirty space ship people like cyberpunk and steampunk, new wave and radium age over golden age; clean space ship people like solarpunk and abrhams-trek and isaac asimov. of the big three golden age authors, heinlein has the dirtiest space ship mentality and clarke the cleanest. star wars has the skin of a dirty space ship franchise with the soul of a clean space ship franchise (especially in Return of the Jedi); star trek is the other way around (especially in TNG). the outer edge of dirty space ship sci fi is psychedelia; the outer edge of clean space ship sci fi is the adventure novel.