#literature #literaryforms Focus is on the anthropocentric hero's journey. The landscape has no agency, it is simply the backdrop. There is no agency for non-human species, only objectification. [[Objectification of Women & Nature]] Even history and politics might not feature. The perspective is singular. The character is mainly a white heterosexual patriarchal male. > '... individual moral adventure... banishes the collective from the territory of the fictional imagination.' - Amita Ghosh [[Wilk, Elvia (2022) Death By Landscape]] A mixture of fascination and fear are used to create weird stories. This designates anyone non-white, male etc. as being weird, exotic, or relegated as a NPC, another nameless individual in a backdrop (landscape) of non named objectified humans and no humans. [[Main Character Syndrome]] **Novum**: The event or technological novelty that signals how a given science-fictional world is different from our own. ## Sources: - [[Love Stories in Western Literature]] - [[Systems Novel]] - [[Autofiction]]