Thread: Why lump SF and Fantasy together
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Old 07-30-2012, 04:06 AM   #77
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
And the science behind creating the dragons from the dragonettes makes it SF. The Pern books are science fiction with fantasy elements.
I prefer to think that Pern started out as straight fantasy, and McCaffrey deliberately changed it into SF by introducing a scientific explanation for the dragons. But perhaps that was the plan all along - I don't know.
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