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Originally Posted by Dazrin
Also add Arthur C Clarke Award nominee to the reasons for including it this month. Any book nominated for the ACCA should be considered science fiction (by definition of the award), even if it also could be considered something else. At the very least it is considered SF by the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival, who were part of the selection committee. Seems like enough to keep it around to me.
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That reminds me of the year that Jethro Tull received a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental. Sure, they got the award, but it was for the wrong category.
The Library of Congress says
Cloud Atlas is fantasy.
http://lccn.loc.gov/2003069314
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Form/Genre Fantasy fiction.
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Face it, it is fantasy and the more authoritative sources do say so. Both
Worldcat and
The Library of Congress agree it's fantasy and they do not call it science fiction.