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The Life-Cycle of a Trope - Science Fiction’s Tragedy of the Commons?

Jonathan McCalmont @ 23-07-2008

Blasphemous Geometries returns, like a surly postal worker on a rainy day.

Blasphemous Geometries by Jonathan McCalmont

This time Jonathan McCalmont takes a look at tropes - the riffs, clich�s 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?”

Paul Raven @ 04-09-2007

This should kill more than a few hours, be you a writer, reader, television obsessive or movie buff, rabid fan, or some combination thereof - the TV Tropes wiki is a user-contributed archive of tropes and plot ideas from literature, film and television, computer games … pretty much any form of entertainment media you can think of. Plus lots of amusing commentary on the nature of fandom, and the wiki’s community itself. Funny, informative and lo-fi - a winning combination, in my book. Discovered via Dinosaur Comics, which is a source of great jollity in its own right if you’ve got the right sense of humour.