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Originally Posted by tompe
There is also a common argument that for example science fiction is not a genre but more of a mode since you can have science fiction crime stories, science fiction romances, and so on.
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Ah, but you can have a western romance or a crime story with a romance as well. The way I've heard it is that majority rules as to which genre most books are considered to be. The main plot determines the genre and elements of other genre's can be used as a sub-plot. So a book could be mostly a western but with a sub-plot of romance between the hero and the local school marm for example.