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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8783266" data-attributes="member: 6779310">It's been recognizable since Rome was a Republic... That  said, it's had a term for about a century, and half a century ago, had a fairly clear ideal promulgated by the members of the SFWA: 3 breaks, no more, from known scienceDune lead me to Niven and OS Card, and away from Heinlein...Niven + Anne McCaffrey lead me to Bujold. And to Doc Smith's Lensman and Fuzzy series.Dune and Niven reinforced my like of Cole & Bunch's Sten series... I only consider some of Niven and some of Heinlein to be Sci Fi... the rest are all Space Opera. But SO, despite being less grounded in science, is still a valuable tool for exploring "The Human Condition." I dare say that Robotech¹ has done as much exploration of what humanity is as has the Ringworld series or Vorkosiverse series. And Star Trek, with its fantasy tech, examines a lot more about people than about tech...... in the end, what matters is not the label, but the experiences and the reflections, and that the stories are memorable and moving in some aspect.Alien's game design is good for that, in both modes.The movies, like other Ridley Scott works, esp. Blade Runner, operate on many different levels... action, shock, the knowing of impending doom and what that drives one to... and even to "Who is more human, Burke, or Ash?" (and "Is Decard human or replicant?")At the end of the Chariot of the Gods module, the questions about the humanness of the replicant are easy to overlook, unless the player thereof embraces the dichotomies to explore them. Similarly in the module Destroyer of Worlds...It is also worth noting that one can swap the cards between characters if one cares to rerun it, and it  can result in very satisfying replay...</blockquote>

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