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I appreciated the way you deconstructed different aspects of editing, production, etc. For competitive reality TV, one of the key things seems to be the choice of people in the first place. Watching shows like Big Brother and Survivor, I’ve often been struck by how much people are living, walking stereotypes. In some measure, it’s match the types of “characters” you want and let the conflict happen. to be heightened then by the many things you’ve discussed.

Have to agree with the couple of people who suggest that the term “speculative fiction” is older than you’re initially suggesting. But I do really like the way that you break down sub-genres and the major topics within them. Suggestion for future consideration if writing about SF history or genres – think about “space opera” as a major sub-genre. Lots of what you have in the other sub-genres here would fit well with that, too, and it was a big influence in the 1930s and 40s.

Enjoyed the article. Sometimes the historical inaccuracies can be a jumping off point for people to do more investigation themselves, so maybe there’s value in that. I teach a world history of sport course, and use lots of films to communicate a sense of things, but relate the inaccuracies to current perspectives and misunderstandings. For example, I love to pick apart “A Knight’s Tale” but try to point out how the intentionally modern things in it are meant to communicate to the audience how much this was “sport” to people at the time.