Would it be so wrong

[james_davis_nicoll]

To try to convince people that Japanese SF novels tend to be shorter than Anglospheric SF novels because Japanese has fewer words than English? And a lot of Japanese consists of words borrowed from other languages.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

So, if the downfall of American SF is due to the pervasive sense of dyspepsia and doom in American culture, how does this map onto post-Lost Decade Japan, which by all accounts is mired in an endless cultural malaise deeper than that of the US?

[kingwalters.livejournal.com]

The argument doesn't relate to American culture generally, but rather to American SF fandom. The latter is definitely full of dyspepsia and doom, for obvious reasons. I don't know anything about Japanese SF fans, but given the histories of the two countries, I wuld be surprised if the same problem was occuring there.