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Old 09-24-2010, 10:23 AM   #167
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Originally Posted by GeoffC View Post
So that puts Anne McCaffrey's books firmly into SF; rather than fantasy....
If you're referring to the dragons... I don't see why not. Scientists have indicated that there may be no intrinsic reason that dragons could not have naturally evolved on Earth, flying, fire-breathing and all; and they readily admit that are fossil records are very incomplete and unrepresentative of all past species.

Anyone else have problems with this law? Maybe there's a "critical mass' of fantasy elements that pushes SF over into Fantasy? If there are no conventional SF elements, but scientifically-explained Fantasy elements, does it become SF, or stay as Fantasy?
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