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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
It doesn't seem much more useful to me than any other genre borders or restrictions.
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which are forced artificial categories used mostly for marketing, targeting a particular audience. An author producing a work that is difficult to "stereotype-cast" into a popular genre mode has a harder time selling it than an author producing standard "troubled lady falls in love with handsome vampire" fare.
My solution is to lump into one category all fiction that has major elements of science fiction, epic fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, magic, supernatural, etc. I give all of that the same tag and don't worry about it. That way I don't waste time trying to figure out or reclassify subjective and arbitrary genre decisions.