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Re: Tractor beam?
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:09:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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 own"--discuss.
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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