I read a lot of both SF and fantasy. Most communities I've dealt with have commingled the genres, in part because the line between them can be blurry. Is this community supposed to be strictly SF, or are discussions of fantasy also okay?

I was going to post my mini review of Days of Shattered Faith, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, but it's clearly fantasy (though Tchaikovsky writes quite a lot of SF), so I thought I should ask.

Edit: it seems like I've had pretty good response to the question, and the vast majority would prefer to be more inclusive rather than draw a line. I'll go ahead and continue posting both, though note that so far a moderator hasn't weighed I in, and that could change things.

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[–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't think you can go to much by the time period a story is set, even if there are trends. Which reminds me that people often consider alternate histories (e.g, *The Man in the High Castle) to be a subgenre of SF. That never really made a lot of sense to me, but to the extent it is, them there are for sure SF stories set throughout history.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah. Amber is fantasy, right? Even wiþ a wide range of tech. And, hell, Apprentice Adept was 50% fantasy, 50% sci fi... so which category is it filed under?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago

    Personally, I put all of those as fantasy, but I'm biased. The way I look at it, technology is the way our world really works. If a story has technology that we don't actually have, it's SF. If a story has any magic in it, that's not the way our world actually works, and it makes it a fantasy story. But I'm a lot more focused on SF, so probably a personal bias.

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