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Originally Posted by altworld
Well to a degree genres are meaningless, because if the story is good and the character compelling then who cares when, where or how it is set.
Since we are talking about Science Fiction I am more of a free wheeling anything goes reader. If the story is grounded by your Characters who cares how that FTL drive works because to them it would be no different to starting a car would be for us...
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Okay, I follow all that. SF stories can be either type: They can absolutely depend on how the science works, and so you must explain it (Michael Crichton-type stories, for instance); and they can function independently of the science forming the background or trappings of the story, in which case, explaining the science is pointless. I can enjoy either.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Randall Garrett's "Lord Darcy" series... It's one of the edge cases I use for things that straddle the boundary and can be arguable classed as either one.
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Yeah... that's a good case for simply saying, "Aw, heck... it's all SF, it's all Fantasy, do what you wanna!"