C'est exactement à ça que je pensais mais j'avais oublié où j'avais trouvé ce conseil...Eric a écrit :Dans son hilarant Workshop Lexicon, Bruce Sterling recense tous les défaut rencontrés dans les ateliers d'écritures, et ce syndrôme du cheval est parfaitement analysé par James Blish, sous le nom de "Call a Rabbit a Smeerp."
Généralement corrélatif de la "Just-Like Fallacy story".A cheap technique for false exoticism, in which common elements of the real world are re-named for a fantastic milieu without any real alteration in their basic nature or behavior. "Smeerps" are especially common in fantasy worlds, where people often ride exotic steeds that look and act just like horses.
SF story which thinly adapts the trappings of a standard pulp adventure setting. The spaceship is "just like" an Atlantic steamer, down to the Scottish engineer in the hold. A colony planet is "just like" Arizona except for two moons in the sky. Space Westerns and futuristic hard-boiled detective stories have been especially common versions.
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http://www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.html