What's that? A virus that infects everyone with equal rate and lethality, and it only is triggered when someone dies of anything? And only after a certain introduction of said virus?
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times (and I have, or at least lost count): almost anything called a "genre" is really just a broadly understandable setting, premise, style, or some combination of the three. There are, functionally, no boxes; just labels and Scotch Tape.
c.f. Y the Last Man and nearly every other high concept "SF" thingy.
Reminded that in contemporary screenwriting, if you're writing SF, you're allowed one "totally never gonna happen/impossible" thing and yeah, that's just fantasy.
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Right. That's magic.
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times (and I have, or at least lost count): almost anything called a "genre" is really just a broadly understandable setting, premise, style, or some combination of the three. There are, functionally, no boxes; just labels and Scotch Tape.
Reminded that in contemporary screenwriting, if you're writing SF, you're allowed one "totally never gonna happen/impossible" thing and yeah, that's just fantasy.