The Life-Cycle of a Trope - Science Fiction’s Tragedy of the Commons?
Blasphemous Geometries returns, like a surly postal worker on a rainy day.
This time Jonathan McCalmont takes a look at tropes - the riffs, clichés and plot enablers that form the backbone of much genre literature. Are tropes subject to abuse and overexploitation in the same way as any other limited resource? Continue reading “The Life-Cycle of a Trope - Science Fiction’s Tragedy of the Commons?”
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