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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Given the "context is king" thesis, are Verne and Wells works SF?
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I would say so.
Adventure, Fantasy and SF have been close bedfellows for... well, forever. Though there may not have been a specific label for science fiction at the time, the works clearly follow the definition of SF... and the context, the period in which the stories were written, support the definition of stories with extrapolated or postulated scientific theories.
The actual labels came later, just as the label "horror" came after Shelley's
Frankenstein, but that doesn't change what they are. Labels always come after a new genre, because after all, how could there have been labels before a genre is invented?