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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Each genre has its conventions and its rules. Good writers honor them.
In fantasy anything goes; sparkly vamps or blood-curdling Lovecraftian horrors. I'll cheerfully buy anything that's well-enough written. I don't mind SF elements in my fantasy. Just don't put fantasy elements into a story and try to pass it as SF. Because that suggests you don't know what SF is or you don't know what is science and what is urban legend. And at that point it just becomes bad writing.
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I think that mixing is one of the problems bookstores bring on themselves. After a while, I got tired of searching through the Borders stacks, trying to find a hard SF in the midst of all the fantasy. It made things especially hard for new, true SF writers.