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Sci-fi in my books is off planet or futuristic. Superman is based on Earth and alls into the superhero genre which tends to not be sci-fi based.

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riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:39, archived)

So by that logic

Alien Nation isn't scifi because they're on Earth?

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Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:41, archived)

I can see your point

But I've never concidered Superman sci-fi.

*sticks finger in ears and goes LALALALALALALA*

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riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:43, archived)

:D Riverghost in unpopular opinion SHOCKER

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Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:45, archived)

Riverghost playing at Trolling and winding up the board SHOCKER

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Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:48, archived)

RIVERGHOST SHOCKER

(k3b/-\b Peace man., Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:52, archived)

How is having an opinion trolling?

A dog has a tail, it doesn't mean it is a tail. The way I see it Superman is in the superhero genre, the majority of superheroes are not
aliens? As the superhero genre has elements of sci-fi, does that make them aliens?
Just because something contains elements of something does make it that thing.
I stick with my opinion and know I'n not the only one with it.

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riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:54, archived)

I would have to agree that it is science fiction.

Superman is other-wordly. Saying that it has to be based in space, or the future, means that films like Independance Day, and The Day The Earth Stood still, indeed every invasion film, is not science fiction, just because it takes place on earth.
Fantasy is something happening magically, science fiction is there being a fictional science to it, and Superman's references to Krypton.

If 1984 is a sci-fi (which it is, I cite from references) then Superman must be.

(bobman500 enjoys a grope as much as the next fella, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 11:39, archived)

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flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:47, archived)

where does "The Consolations of Boethius" fit in your theory?

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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:42, archived)

I have no idea

Can it be milked?

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riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:44, archived)

The day the earth stood still, can't be sci-fi then?

Invasion of the body snatchers can't be sci-fi?
War of the worlds can't be sci-fi

as they all happened on earth.

they are based on sci-fi principles you twunt :)

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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:44, archived)

My point being is that I've never concidered Superman sci-fi

as it falls in to the Supehero genre. Superheroes, in the main, are from Earth so I don't class that genre as sci-fi.

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riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:49, archived)

Since when is science restricted to outer space?

There is a lot of science happening on the earth, apparently.

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Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:44, archived)

No there isn't

they shut it all down to fix an electrical fault.

/lhc blog

(Spidge New sig needed, donations gratefully accepted., Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:51, archived)

rubbish. sci-fi can be earth based and set in the present or even the past.

to name a few:
hg wells: the war of the worlds
greg bear: blood music
mary shelley: frankenstein
michael chricton: jurassic park

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urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:44, archived)

well the compo refers to "science-fiction"

rather than "riverghost's own incorrect definition of science fiction"

science fiction
n. A literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background.

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drbroon abloooobloobloo, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:47, archived)