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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
But I'd love to know what definitions of SF and fantasy the folks you know use if they can call the Honor Harrington series fantasy. Would they also toss James H. Schmitz's "Federation of the Hub" stories into the fantasy pot, since many of them feature a heroine who is a powerful telepath, and psi powers are an accepted part of her society?
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Dennis
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In case you were wondering, this wasn't code for "I think that ...". It's just that I've read/participated in a similar thread a year ago, or was that five years ago, anyway it was sometime in the past. I can't remember who and where the conversation was. However, a few of the folks in the thread were 'purists' and anything like mind reading, magic, psi etcetera automatically pushed the book out of the SF category.
My point was not to support their categorization, but to use an example to explain that I believe the only categorization possible is a personal one. Your definitions and mine will never be the same. More specifically, however we define the categories, I suspect that we would never agree on how a specific list of books fits into the categories.
BTW, how would you categorize Dune [grin].