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Originally Posted by Sinnermental
I hate genre labelling. They make it seem like its all neatly ironed out into little blocks when many countries have their own versions genres.
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Genres are really just a coarse version of "you might also like..."
They are a way of pointing the reader towards similar material. I know I like SF and fantasy, so I can narrow down my search quite substantially very quickly. Imagine how painful it would be if I had to go through the description/blurb of every book.
Fine sub genre classifications, such as Hard SF (which I don't think I would say Honor Harrington is) are mostly kind of useless, but again are just an attempt to group similar things.