I’ve just finished reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Uval Noah Harari. It was a very interesting book but there was a reference to science fiction in the last chapter “The End of Homo Sapiens” the author writes “This is not science fiction. Most science-fiction plots describe a world in which Sapiens - identical to us - enjoy superior technology such as light-speed spaceships and laser guns.” Several months ago I was watching a movie review on CBC in which the reviewer stated that the movie she was reviewing was not your typical science fiction with monsters etc…
What sort of crap are these people reading or watching? I have probably 20 or 30 SF books, many of which are anthologies, and I don’t think that there’s a single story that fits those descriptions and I’m not even sure if anyone even writes stuff like that. If these people had actually read a random selection of 10 SF short stories they would probably not be able to find anything remotely fitting the above descriptions.