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Use this tag when examining what is on-topic or off-topic, and why.

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Are questions about the influence of SF works on later non-SF works on topic?

Suppose work A is clear science fiction or fantasy, and work B is not. Would it be on topic to ask about whether an on-topic aspect of A influenced a part of B? For example, would it be on topic to …
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Is Monty Python's Flying Circus on topic?

Is the work of Monty Python, as a rule, on topic here? The world, as depicted in Monty Python's Flying Circus is different from the real world in many ways. One can suffer a dangerous fall while cli …
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Are stories that only appear to contain fantastical elements on topic?

This question concerns a very famous short story by Saki. For much of the story, it appears to be a ghost story with supernatural elements. That there are no ghosts or apparitions involved is the tw …
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Is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead on topic?

Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a perspective flip of Hamlet, written from the viewpoint of the two least important characters who die in the course of Shakespeare's origi …
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Is The Warriors (1979) on topic?

The Warriors is a 1979 film (with a 2005 home re-release that adds comic book transitions between scenes) that takes place in New York City that is full of peculiar gangs. The setting was, as of the …
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Is The Wicker Man (1973) on topic?

The Wicker Man is a famous British folk musical/horror/erotic thriller film from 1973. (There was a 2006 American remake that I have never seen and which is not that well regarded.) I was wondering …
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