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Old 04-07-2012, 07:58 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
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.
you need to read more.

BTW, all fiction happens in some time frame. Time is not an interesting way to classify genres...
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