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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Just for fun, if we go back 500 years or more, would fictional works about civilizations in distant lands have been properly classified as scifi or fantasy using the current definition?
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Well, back when the world was flat,
obviously there
were no distant lands, so it's SciFi, naturally!
Seriously, though, I'd call it just fiction, unless they were somehow depending on some not-then existent scientific device (very unlikely in the 1500's) for the story to work.
We're (mostly Alex) working on a list of categories for the rest of the forum, so I'm sure there will be some appropriate category for this thread "So far off topic that you can't see it from here" most likely.
All right, now snapping out.
