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Chekhov’s Gundam

On Chekhov’s Gun, genre expectations, and big old robots

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Lincoln Michel
May 20, 2021
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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on the giant robot."

This morning, there was a bit of a literary Twitter debate about Chekhov’s Gun. My own contribution to this was, as usual, a dumb pun:

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