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Re: Tractor beam?
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Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:58:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Matthew Miller writes:
> Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
> > What's fantasy got to do with it? Just because bookstores misfile David
> > Eddings in the SF section doesn't make fantasy science fiction.
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> On the contrary -- much science fiction is fantasy.
Before we go any farther with this we must all acknowledge that there is
no set definition of science fiction or fantasy, nor is there any solid
distinction between them. If you ask ten fans for a definition you'll
likely wind up with fifteen answers; it all depends on your assumptions
about the genre.
Dave!
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| (...) That's one reason I like the term F&SF (Fantasy and Science Fiction). It nicely lumps everything together, though it is still hard to define (really, most fiction could be considered fantasy). There certainly are books I would consider part of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Well, don't ask the fans, they're groping, get the professional's fifteen answers. I don't know who came up with this one, it might be Thomas Disch or Barry Malzberg or David Kyle: F&SF is "fiction set in an empirical universe other than our (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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