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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Science fiction and crime can coexist quite well. I've read several of Asimov's mysteries.
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There is, of course, a technical sense in which this is true. But I don't think that bookstore owners would classify "The Caves of Steel" as a mystery or shelve it in that section. And I don't think that people who like the mystery genre would be very pleased with an Asimov robot mystery, since it violates most of the conventions of the genre. (Primarily being that they are set in a realistic, existing world). More generally, I would say that SF readers don't mind crime in their SF, but crime readers don't want SF in their crimes.
(On the other hand, a lot of romance readers don't mind SF/paranormal in their romances, but a lot of SF readers don't like romances in their SF. Diane Gabaldon is a good litmus test).