The trouble with such stylistic stringency is that if you decide to extirpate stories like that from science fiction you'll lose such material as E. E. Smith's Lensman series (which you could say is kind of a mix between a western and a spy story in space clothing).

Yet few authors contributed as much as Smith to make science fiction popular.

(I would say the same about George Lucas or Gene Roddenberry, by the way. Now, awarding a Hugo to Lord of the Rings -- that is ridiculous!)

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