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Originally Posted by jbcohen
I have always thought that there are four types of sci-fi books. Past - where someone from our time frame goes to earth's past for example TV's Land of the Lost; Present - where some one from the future or the past arrives in our time frame (I do not have an example of this); future - someone from our time frame goes to the future or someone from our past goes to the future (the classic novel the time machine is a good example here); and future/future - when someone from our future moves around within our future - star treck does this all the time. Can you come up with additional examples of each? What is your critique of my analysis.
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Just some thoughts... I think you might be a bit over obsessed with trying to find broad time based categories. Sure many, if not most science fiction stories will fit into one of these categories, but they don't necessarily tell you a lot about the story otherwise. For example, stories set 100 years in the future and stories set 100,000 years in the future both might fit in the same one of your categories, but that doesn't mean they are at all alike.
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Bill